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The atmosphere, then, is properly ominous at Camp Shelter, where Delia, Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Southern Gothic, '90s Style | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

The initial French response to Pean's work reflects this tolerance. There seems general relief that some of the more sinister rumors about the young Mitterrand have been debunked. "He is not anti-Semitic," the author has been telling interviewers. "I never found a single word, a single line that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Along with this duo, Hitchcock has assembled notables such as the famous character actress Thelma Ritter as Stella, the savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Look Out For 'Rear Window' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

I have looked at thousands of covers over the years and chosen hundreds. I have never been so wrong about how one would be received. In the storm of controversy over this cover, several of the country's major news organizations and leading black journalists charged that we had darkened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jul. 4, 1994 | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

First, it should be said (I wish it went without saying) that no racial implication was intended, by TIME or by the artist. One could argue that it is racist to say that blacker is more sinister, and some African Americans have taken that position in the course of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jul. 4, 1994 | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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