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...backlash works. There's been an almost willful misreading of her message. A friend of mine said it seemed like all those who want to dismiss feminism have been lying in wait for Gloria, because of her unsullied reputation. They were looking for any opening to start slinging mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Revive a Revolution | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...just left Graceland, your first stop should be the Great American Pyramid, Memphis' new sports coliseum on the banks of the Mississippi right nearby. And if it's summer, glide over the river on the monorail and enjoy yourself in the Riverwalk at Mud Island...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gape at Gold Pianos, Or Look at Art Instead | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delight in A Shaping Hand | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...long drought. But last week the storms suddenly became too much of a good thing. Fifteen inches has fallen, drowning cars, streets and houses under rivers of water. At least eight people died, including a Ventura County man and his pregnant wife who were buried by a wave of mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation Notes: Disasters | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...claim that eating in their house is a privilege. So why should I get to eat in whatever house I please? Because I live in the Quad, dammit. Everyone in Adams House owes me something. Every time I drag my body through the Common--risking frostbite, muggings and yucky mud--I am saving some too comfortable student from Adams House the inconvenience of living far away from campus...

Author: By Jonathan R. Funke, | Title: The [Taste] Bud Bowl | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

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