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Despite its publisher's hope that Purdy's book will hit it big with thoughtful twentysomethings starved for meaning in a vacuous time, For Common Things is an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor. It is not the accessible pop polemic some reviewers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Optimist In a Jaded Age | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

In her column "Say It Ain't So, Mr. President" (Jan. 29), Susannah B. Tobin manages to turn a critique of the President's alleged affair into a polemic against Republicans and the Republican Party. Tobin compares the current scandal to Watergate; but this comparison serves only to highlight Clinton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Criticize Clinton, Not the GOP | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

This just in! The media distorts the truth for its own nefarious purposes! Mad City focuses on Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a reporter who "crosses the line" between reporting the news and fabricating it when he turns a hostage crisis involving a fired janitor (John Travolta) into a media circus...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, | Title: Mad City | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

This just in! The media distorts the truth for its own nefarious purposes! This movie focuses on Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a reporter who "cross the line" between reporting the news and fabricating it when he turns a hostage crisis involving a fired janitor (John Travolta) into a media circus...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, | Title: Mad City | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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