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As he rejects simple characterization of his own work, he also refuses to accept the common vision of the world as divided into neat little oppositional packages like male/female, black/white, good/bad. While this attitude might be expected to result in nihilism, Reed's refusal to compartmentalize offers the possibility of...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

With Hannah and Her Sisters, though, the hedonistic impulse that has driven the arts both high and low for more than two decades appears to be at long last exhausted. Hannah and Her Sisters runs against the modern sensibility by suggesting that faith, family and community augment--rather than compromise...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: More Than a Movie | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

What is the explanation for this murderousness? Why are blacks disproportionately represented as victims and victimizers, as predators and prey? One partial explanation, some experts contend, is the hopelessness that pervades the urban ghetto, which fosters a kind of street-corner nihilism, a feeling that nothing is worth anything. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Brother Kills Brother | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

Almost. The record begins with And She Was, about a woman who levitates above her backyard and propels herself off into the universe, a voyage that is presented with no more wonderment than a trip down to the 7-Eleven. Road to Nowhere, which ends the second side, has the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heads Are Rolling | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

In recent centuries the church has apportioned a substantial part of its energies to battles against external enemies--skepticism, nihilism, secularism and atheism. Today Rome finds itself under a strong challenge from some who & profess to be loyally Catholic. Latin America, a region that the Pope is visiting for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Discord in the Church | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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