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But the majority of the guests sat cross-legged on newspapers scattered over the brick floor and dined on rice and water.

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 400 Join in Oxfam Banquet | 11/20/1992 | See Source »

The shadow Dream Team was working its magic in a rickety, almost empty country stadium. There were Roman numerals on the scoreboard. Black-and-yellow butterflies fluttered around the net. The few sportswriters in attendance were sitting cross-legged on the ground, to avoid the blistering sun. The bus driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barcelona the Win-Win Games | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Last year's winner of Britain's esteemed Booker Prize, THE FAMISHED ROAD (Doubleday; $22.50), is a long, winding allegorical novel that draws no line between fact and fantasy. The Nigerian-born, London-based Ben Okri explores the spiritual interior of an African nation struggling to reconcile its traditions with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jun. 8, 1992 | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Whether or not the dog is man's best friend, it's been good to William Wegman. For many years Wegman's best friend was Man Ray, a soulful blue-gray Weimaraner that is by now the most famous artist's model since Alfred Stieglitz picked up the scent of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Wegman: Bowwowing The Art World | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. In this 1986 animated feature, now revived for a new generation, a mouse chanteuse performs the first tentative striptease in a Disney cartoon. Otherwise, there's not much momentous in this story of some adorable rodents and a peg-legged bat named Fidgit -- just some clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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