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...thumping beats. Many of today's top male performers, like neo-soul crooner Maxwell, Christian-pop singer Bob Carlisle, soft-focus R.-and-B. singer Babyface and PG-13 rated rapper-actor Will Smith, go further; the aggression, the sharp edges, the dangerous sexuality are all gone, leaving almost pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ACROSS THE GENDERS, THERE'S SENSITIVE-GUY POP TOO | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...frontier myth, in one of its aspects, denied original sin. Sin is not original but cumulative. The origins are pure. Nature is sinless, before an overlay of mounting compromises and concessions induces a weary cynicism. Even Mr. Smith's fallen idol, the worldly Senator Paine (Claude Rains), was unsullied before he breathed in the big-city corruptions of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMES STEWART: TWO SIDES OF INNOCENCE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...partially pure luck," he said. "It may be the difference between having a T.F. at 10 a.m. rather than at 9."Humility--according to those who have worked with him--is a Jeffrey Gell trademark...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: Sophia Freund Prize Recognizes Those Better Than the Best | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...reputation. The defendants, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, fought the charge on free speech grounds, saying they should have the right to air alternative views and criticize multinational corporations. The presiding judge didn't buy the argument, stating flatly that some of the duo's claims were pure whoppers. But the Golden Arches didn't get off unscathed either. After grilling the critics, the judge declared some of their complaints were clearly valid. The final take for McDonald's? 57,500 pounds, or about $94,000 in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Arches Prevail | 6/19/1997 | See Source »

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