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...assimilation as a first priority. But every Out group carries with it a critical perspective, forged in the painful experiences of rejection and marginalization. When that perspective is lost or forgotten, a movement stands in danger of degenerating into a scramble for personal advancement. We applaud the winners and pray that their numbers increase, but the majority will still be found far outside the gates of privilege, waiting for the movement to start up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Equality: Sorry, Sisters, This Is Not the Revolution | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...pray that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora will put pressure on the Israeli government to end the occupation and stop the violence now--if not out of compassion for the Palestinian people, then to free the Jews. Seth Daniel Tapper '91 Michael Cooper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Oppression Enslaves Jews | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Chemistry. Be a Minoxidil man. Rub chemicals into your scalp and pray for growth. Put your right foot in, take your right foot out, do the hokey-pokey and turn yourself about. Open your mind to science and your wallet, too--at $52 for a month's worth at CVS, Minoxidil may let you keep your hair and nothing else...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...Father James Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick." Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: My Realtor, The Saint | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...introduced in 1985, Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah Mountain; Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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