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...clashes and gang culture, recounts the rise and fall of a black cracklord. To some alarmed observers, the upheavals suggested that life was imitating art at a time when more and more urban youths are armed and prone to just the sort of violence that such films so graphically portray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Imitates Art | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...friend says Kerrigan's recent attempt to portray herself as a defender of the South comes as news to him. "If Bridget was to try to show that she represents a Southern belle, I couldn't be more surprised," he says...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: ... Who Is Bridget Kerrigan? | 3/19/1991 | See Source »

...press's attention has been focused on its own problems in getting the story. Complaints about the military's press restrictions and other roadblocks have been fodder for countless articles and TV discussions. Whatever the validity of those complaints, the arguments over the rules of coverage may portray the press as a band of arrogant, self-involved whiners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Whose Side Are They On? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...entirely avoid the killing of civilians, and Saddam seems to be trying to provoke more by putting military installations among them -- placing antiaircraft guns on top of apartment houses, for example. Thus a dismal equation: more bombing equals more civilian deaths equals an ever greater chance for Saddam to portray the war as an assault by Western colonialists and Zionists against the entire Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: Calculus of Death | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...recently published letter to The Crimson ("ORGASM President: GAS Was Close-Minded," February 2), Leon L. Lai '91 attempts to portray me and the rest of the 1990 Catholic Student Association (GSA) Steering Committee as opposed to open dialogue and discussion in our response to ORGASM's showing of a video entitled "Stop the Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSA: ORGASM Head Was Unfair | 2/13/1991 | See Source »

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