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...convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes, we found a pattern: the ones who changed society the most were those who liberated a segment of humanity that had been fenced in by prejudice. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball; Helen Keller demolished old notions about the blind and deaf; and Harvey Milk dared to put himself on the ballot as an openly gay candidate. On his fourth...
Thompson says he wants to "erase the traditional line between the visual and performing arts." To this end, Mass MoCA has a theater, rehearsal spaces, an outdoor cinema and what the center boasts is "two performance courtyards." These are ordinary courtyards, enlivened by the buildings, elevated walkways and bridges that surround them. There's something peculiarly exultant about watching a Los Lobos concert in an abandoned factory. That peculiarity is Mass MoCA's chief...
Adolf Hitler has long been established as the 20th century's Great Satan, the base line of evil; Joseph Stalin, equally monstrous by most objective measures, comes in a distant second--maybe even third behind Pol Pot. One big difference was World War II: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and so Stalin's enormities were courteously minimized in the wartime alliance against Hitler, when the Russian leader became pipe-smoking "Uncle Joe." After that, the demonology never entirely caught up with...
...Classics --Introducing Kudzu to the U.S. --Novelizations of Movies --The Ugandan Space Program --The Titanic --The Edsel --Rocky 5 --Aerosol Cheese --Flowbee --Attacking Israel on Yom Kippur --AfterMASH --Shoe-Store X Rays --Geraldo's Opening of Capone's Vault --The Independent-Counsel Statute --Psychic Hotlines --Cold Fusion --The Maginot Line --George Lazenby As James Bond --The Hitler Diaries
...care for the elderly, but at every stop Gore met questions about the peace plan that had just been accepted by the Yugoslav parliament. Gore maintained a cautious face publicly, warning that it was premature to claim victory. Still, several times in private he dashed to a secure phone line to get the latest, increasingly optimistic assessments from his national security adviser, Leon Fuerth. As Oliver North told his conservative radio listeners last week, the combat "may be ending just in time to save Al Gore's hide...