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...have the basic human right under God to say anything I want," he said. "As soon as you stand on the First Amendment, they will knock you down...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Ice T Appearance Irks Mayor Flynn | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

...have the basic human right under God to say anything I want," he said. "As soon as you stand on the First Amendment, they will knock you down...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, | Title: Rapper Speaks At Law School | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...knock mush. Mush in small doses can be very nice. But mush-for-the-sake-of-mush can get a little absurd. Mush isn't exciting; it's squishy and fake, and it makes me a little uncomfortable. Most importantly, you can't build anything with mush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts from the Heart | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...parents, Morris, 37, and his visual collaborator, comic-strip artist Charles Burns, also 37, offer heavily freighted tableaux -- how it was, way back when people wore bell-bottoms and leisure suits, and how it is now, when the wish for a perfect family Christmas collides with the need to knock back some extra holiday cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions Of Robot-Rats | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...Sure You Copy the Good Stuff. A better title for Used People might be Used Goods; it's this year's Moonstruck knock-off. The chief difference is that, as written by Todd Graff and directed by Beeban Kidron, this lower- middle-class New York City family is glumly dysfunctional instead of chipperly so. The matriarch is newly widowed Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), and oy, has she got troubles. One of her daughters (Marcia Gay Harden) is developing multiple personalities based on celebrity models. The other (Kathy Bates) is fighting fat and single-mom bitterness. Grandma (Jessica Tandy) is, perhaps sensibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Christmas Films Don't Sparkle | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

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