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...AWAY IS ALMOST AN OXYmoron. It is, to use two words that rarely rub shoulders, a genial epic. Big historical movies usually revolve around great figures (Gandhi, T.E. Lawrence) or great historical moments (the Russian Revolution, the parting of the Red Sea), and they always resonate with instructive messages for the modern audience (as in Dances with Wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving In A New World | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Indeed, the typical alternative rock fan (never mind the oxymoron) tends to go through bands like nobody's business, ever on the rampage for the novel and always primed to roust a sell-out. Some divide alternative rock fans into two groups--those who have been at this game for years and those who have only just begun to put bands in the same category as kleenex--use them up and throw them away. The latter are accused of posing; the former, of snobbery. Everyone is, of course, up-to-the-minute hip. Novelty obscures quality sometimes...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Of the "Not" Generation: Notes of an Alternative Music fan | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Well, they're still waiting -- and it has become clear that the term "true Bush" is an oxymoron. The only thing really real about the President is his desire for office, which is why, as he himself said, he will do anything to be re-elected. And so John Frohnmayer, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, had to go. Bush knew what he was getting when he selected Frohnmayer in 1989, and the President's friends heralded the appointment as proof that Bush's heart was in the right place. But then, on Feb. 20, Pat Buchanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...flamboyantly effeminate faggot, I appreciate the length (no pun intended, OF COURSE) of time and energy you have so diligently devoted to me and my fellow sisters (is that an oxymoron?). I have to say that I haven't had that much sheer, unadulterated, orgiastic excitement and pleasure since Alexis and Crystal had their big blowout on Dynasty. Did you all see that episode? If not I have it on tape. You are all more than welcome to come over to my deviantly decorated boudoir for a "private showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to the Council of Peninsula | 12/3/1991 | See Source »

...ratifying the strategic-arms- reduction treaty the two Presidents signed last July. That was barely three months ago, but it was, as they say in Moscow, B.C. -- before the coup. Since then, with the rapid disintegration of the U.S.S.R., the very term Soviet leader has become something of an oxymoron. So has Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

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