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SAMMY DAVIS JR.'S SINGSONG CANDY MAN was a genial guy. The '90s version, from the fetid, fertile brain of horror bard Clive Barker, is a malefic beastie who preys on those foolhardy enough to say his name five times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 9, 1992 | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

This means, said baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, that they are not speaking to the fans, and "the fans own the game." But fans also think they own the athlete; it makes them possessive and protective. Some are suspicious of women -- sports groupies -- who sue wealthy athletes. Outside the Indiana courthouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jock as Fallen Idol | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

But what of the way the book treats men, and affects our notion of them? Insofar as Ellis has deliberately created a monstrous deformity, it is nonetheless striking that the monster is male, and preys mostly on women; and insofar as he intends a closer identification with his creation, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Are Men Really So Bad? | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

The implications of this are both staggering and sickening because of the importance of Black children for the future of a free South Africa. Apartheid must fall when Black children achieve a dignity and pride in their heritage and grow up to rightfully demand the privdleges of South African whites...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Reagan's Hypocrisy in S. Africa | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

As students of history, contracting diggers have learned an ironic lesson: all things do, in fact, pass. Archaeological sites are as diverse as the people who inhabited them or the diggers who rescue them, and the romance of the profession or the site rarely meets public expectations. The demise of...

Author: By M.l. Rahn, | Title: Archaeology Labs Bite the Dust | 5/25/1983 | See Source »

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