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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...friendships have the quality of Mark Twain boyhoods - not entirely a matter of Tom Sawyer's rapscallion innocence, but something of boyhood bitterly shadowed, as "Huckleberry Finn" was, by violence, alcoholism, hatred, vicious stupidity and the precocious knowledge of evil. Harper Lee had the atmosphere in "To Kill a Mockingbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Innocence and Ugliness | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school and public libraries over the past 10 years. "The Catcher in the Rye," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" were among the titles adults found most offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Banning Hits a Road Block: The First Amendment | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...FAVORITE MOVIES: Metropolitan, Vanya on 42nd Street, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Broadcast News, Animal House, The Last Picture Show, Manhattan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blade Runner, Richard III (‘95), Moonstruck, The Big Chill, Pulp Fiction, Tootsie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: Send Us More! | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

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