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...works of art. One particularly memorable john had "I Love You" scrawled in the toilet bowl with a substance not of this world. Maybe I should also get Lit and Arts C credit for trying to clean that bathroom. I can only hope that non-ordered choice does not ruin the character of Adams House powder rooms...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Cleaning Toilets for the Core | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...recalls, that her husband told her, "We've got the most difficult time ahead of us. There is going to be political fighting . . . it's very alarming . . . ((But)) we mustn't give in to the conservatives . . . We mustn't surrender the fate of the country to cowboys. They would ruin everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Days Were Horrible | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Others, of course, remain. Adam Smith said, "There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." There is also going to be a lot of disorder in the new world order. The problem of nationalism requires managing, but not denial, and certainly not suppression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

...variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until he gets a chance to do it right, from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Realm of Sigh-Fi | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

Like Do the Right Thing, which began as a live-action Sesame Street and then flipped out into a race riot, Jungle Fever is really two movies in one: the first hour an essay on various volatile issues, the second a dramatization of how these issues inform and ruin ordinary lives. Lee tries hard to spread the intensity, and the ignorance, judiciously. He lets a geek chorus of Italian- American guys in Bensonhurst blame black men for everything from Central Park rapes to the mongrelization of jockdom. "They took our sports," one fellow grouses, "baseball, football, basketball, boxing. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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