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...father, who registered with the G.O.P. every year “to vote against the crazies [read: the religious right],” I’d never met a real Republican before, not to mention a member of the religious right. These people existed for me mainly in legend, caricatured to the point that, had Barrett pasted a Swastika on her wall next to her Degas posters, I wouldn’t have been surprised...
...Dawning of a Legend Our PEOPLE item [Sept. 20] referred to Lauren Bacall's 60-year career in the movies. It started with her role in To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart. TIME's review of her performance in that film might have done a little bit to push her toward stardom...
...fact, the only way one could tell they’re there at all, is by paying close attention to the feral handwork of one 81-year-old legend and his troupe of former students. With only their ingenuity and bodies at their disposal, they collectively set out to make “the invisible visible...
...course, there are those who view that eagerness to cross over, particularly when it involves collaborations with white pop stars, as a negative. Nelly has been hit with charges of Hammerism, most notably from aging rap legend KRS-One, who issued a commercial fatwa against Nelly and his label, Universal Records, and then backed it up as "the will of God." What KRS was presumably trying to do was inspire a battle in which he and Nelly would go back and forth on record, gaining publicity while insulting each other, before ultimately calling on someone else seeking publicity to broker...
...threats we face are not yet massive enough to draw our undivided attention. While the Turks were still raiding the Anatolian steppe, few, if any, Europeans would ever have guessed that not only would they eventually conquer the “Second Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they would come within a hairs breadth of conquering Europe itself. Few realize how close the Turks came to breaking into the very heart of Europe. If it was not for the arrival of Jan Sobieski and his Polish cavalry history would have...