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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just to set the record straight, people do find the term "redskin" offensive. If someone says he or she is offended, that should be the end of the discussion. Furthermore, when thousands of people express their pain and hurt at the use of a symbol, there should be no need for them to validate their feelings. (The use of the Confederate flag and its offensiveness to African-Americans offers us another recent example...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Name Game | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...doing.' But for Joel, my work wasn't about acting. It was a modeling experience; he wanted to ritually sell an image. Once I realized that this movie was going to be a two-hour ad for the toys, that nothing I did mattered, I wasn't a pain in the ass." He says it was his choice to drop out of the series and that Schumacher offered him the lead role in his next film, A Time to Kill, which made a star of Matthew McConaughey. "Joel thought my turning it down was a reflection on him, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A SAINT GOES MARCHING ON | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...defend himself by attacking his religious wife: "Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern." The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NO MERCY | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...read your article on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands [WORLD, March 17]. Here in Dallas I've been accused of coming from a society that likes to kill sick people. However, we in the Netherlands assist the death only of those who are living in constant pain and suffering. JAN BURGERS Dallas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...spinal column. That surprising discovery led to the isolation of a chemical called vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Professor Barry Komisaruk says is the neurotransmitter, or nervous system chemical messenger, in the body that causes the orgasm sensation in the brain. Komisaruk mentioned that vasoactive intestinal peptide may have strong pain-suppressing qualities that one day may make it a natural source of pain relief. But other implications were inescapable. Could the ultimate form of Safe Sex be far off? After all, in the go-go brave new millennium, busy women may not have time to get to an Orgasmatron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Men? | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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