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...Granted, it would be hard to overcome the handicap of their particular roles, bland characters who speak tritely at best. Yet John's sullen sneer is so completely out of place, and Mina's cooing sweetness rings false. Ferrell. only comes to life when she sheds the veneer of pure innocent for that of vampire seductress...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: A Bloodless Dracula | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...penalty, vociferously condemned U.S. policy in Central America, and flirted with socialism as an answer to American domestic problems. My school lockers sported in turn a Mondale/Ferraro and a Dukakis/Bentsen sticker. At the time when Mr. Mayo was adulating him, Ronald Reagan was for me the incarnate manifestation of pure evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slap at Conservatism is Itself Too "Easy" | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

When it comes to racial identity, many couples feel that a child should never have to "choose" between parents. The 1990 U.S. census form, with its "Black," "White" and "Other" boxes, particularly grated. " 'Other' is not acceptable, pure and simple," says Nancy Brown, 40. "It is psychologically damaging to force somebody to choose one identity when physiologically and biologically they are more than one." Nancy, who is white, thinks the census form should include a "Multiracial" box for her two daughters; her black husband Roosevelt, 44, argues that there should be no race box at all. Both agree that people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intermarried...with Children | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Sometimes pure volume counts. The more information extracted from a given feature, the more likely that feature is to dominate the cybernetic offspring. Even when the program is weighted 50-50, if an African man has more hair than a Vietnamese woman, his hair will dominate; the same thing applies to larger lips or a jutting jaw. One of our tentative unions produced a distinctly feminine face -- sitting atop a muscular neck and hairy chest. Back to the mouse on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebirth of a Nation, Computer Style | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...next opening for a publicist. The September convention of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association turned into a recruitment center for major national media seeking to diversify newsrooms. Insiders say the National Book Awards and even the Pulitzer Prizes have at times bowed to political correctness rather than pure merit, seeking to honor blacks, Hispanics and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Separation | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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