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...much despised among Externalists as Chambers was at Georgetown dinner parties during the Alger Hiss case years ago. Among racial intellectuals, Horowitz is "Not Our Class, Dear." Hating Whitey--with its inflammatory title--deserves a reading. Horowitz is angry and polemical, but he is also a clear and ruthless thinker. What he says has an indignant sanity about it. For cautionary perspective in an argument like this, it pays to remember that Hiss was guilty and Chambers was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indignant Sanity | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...district court and it did have three judges examine the issue, as opposed to only one. But that was last year. His egregiously embarrassing computer literacy problems in the courtroom notwithstanding, Jackson simply knows best. (Although I'm praying he doesn't direct the anti-bundling animus against ruthless exploiters with the temerity to bundle such things as salt and pepper or cars and tires...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: In Defense of the Microsoft Monopoly | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet, giving lad with a lot of promise. Almodovar is careful and caring in setting up this lovely couple--one could build a fine movie around them--and then he is ruthless in tearing them apart. With Esteban gone, Manuela has a mission: to grieve heroically and heal the wounds of other desperate souls. She is the ultimate organ donor. Now that her heart has been broken, she gives pieces of it to everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Loving Pedro | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Championship Wrestling after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power and the hetero fear of gay sexuality (literally striking dumb straight men who witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Once the keg is secured, there are more creative and competitive ways of quaffing your booze than keg stands and guzzling. Beer games are truly the finer art. A favorite of the masses, "Beer Pong" evokes the ruthless competitive spirit of any participant. In this tipsy version of ping-pong, players congregate around a table and attempt to hit the ball into the cups of their opponents, placed in front of every competitor. When the ball finds its home, chugging commences. There are many varieties in this game of agility, and hand-eye coordination tends to decrease as the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer, Beer, and More Beer: A Drinker's Guide to the Suds | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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