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...stretch of highway this spring and wonder who to thank, it may be that they're in for a bit of a shock. In among the familiar signs proclaiming the good works of Kiwanis and Rotarians, they could well see one thanking the local chapter of... the Ku Klux Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ku Klux Klan Wins a Battle to Play at Cleanup | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Ashcroft's Dubious Pen Pal | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelogue in verse but Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (for the movie's title) and MGM's The Wizard of Oz (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous blue-grass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you get prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (for the movie's title) and MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous bluegrass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you have prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade. But don't ask us for reasons; we just liked it. As Clooney, who never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...wounds were many for a woman who grew up in Alabama in the 1950s and '60s; who as a child was warned not to roll down the car windows lest Ku Klux Klan members throw acid in her face; who as a teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Color and The Cushion | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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