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Though the common-law-courts movement is loosely organized, with no strict hierarchy, the first arrests were big ones. Schweitzer became a leader of the Freemen after a tax dispute in the late 1970s. Using ideas common to the Posse Comitatus and other rightist fringe groups, they cobbled a doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF SIEGE | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

As indicated by its title, the class explores race, gender and sexuality through the specific lens of the 1950s.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Like Ike and Love Lucy but Adore This Class | 3/13/1996 | See Source »

In this film (and in another enticing compilation, David Johnson's The Lavender Lens: 100 Years of Celluloid Queers, available in some video stores), we see gay characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FINAL FRONTIER | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...while today's world may be discarding Brahmin images of Harvard, it is certainly building new ones. Often these visions are quite positive. The other day I went over to Lens Crafters to get some contact lenses. While the optician was checking my eyes with his little white light, he asked where I went to school. When I told him I went to Harvard, I immediately sensed a reaction but was surprised by what he actually said. Instead of hearing the typical "That place is expensive huh?" or the even more creative "You must be smart!" I saw his eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arrogance Mars Fair Harvard | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

Very loosely based on the rise of news reader Jessica Savitch, the script by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne sends Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer)--all elbows and naked ambition--into a Miami TV newsroom presided over by Warren Justice (Redford), who ankled the network scene because he was too darned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HAIR TODAY, STAR TOMORROW | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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