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...than in evoking strong feelings. His political epics (The Conformist, The Last Emperor) are really interior melodramas about small people overwhelmed by sweeping events; his intimate studies of sexual desperation (Last Tango in Paris, The Sheltering Sky) are really about the places -- Paris apartments or the depths of the Sahara -- where troubled people get lost. Little Buddha is a story of quite small people, three modern kids, who rise to great spiritual demands, and of Jesse's parents, who come to terms with truths that are much greater than their problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Siddhartha In Seattle | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

When senior Matt Mallgrave, the team's leading goal scorer, says "too many guys are taking nights off, and I'm one of them it's a bad sign. Really bad--worse than hearing somewhere over the Sahara that your pilot is experimenting with LSD for the first time...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: My Two Bits | 3/10/1993 | See Source »

More than a million wander the Sahara as refugees

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forgotten Tragedies | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Bulawayo has chosen after a year-long search to find a Sub-Sahara African city with which to establish a relationship. The committee chose Belawayo after examinations of several cities on September...

Author: By Evan J. Eason., | Title: Cambridge News Briefs | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...Egyptians were far ahead of anyone else in Africa, but the 4th millennium B.C. was a crucial time for the rest of the continent as well. The climate started to get progressively dryer, and the Sahara expanded into a vast desert. Nomadic tribes that herded cattle, sheep and goats on the fringes of the Sahara and the Sahel and in the Sudan were forced southward to the Central African savannas, where they gradually displaced hunter-gatherers who had dominated the area for thousands of years. Only in southern Africa, where farming was difficult, did the Stone Age hunter-gatherers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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