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This sycophantic praise-mongering is right in step with the tone of photos. Duncan is a slave to his subjects, a photographer who glorifies rather than analyzes, who retouches instead of revealing. Impeccably crafted and consummately executed, Red Shoes only serves to massage some show-business egos and provide a temporary fix for the People Magazine crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...Elizabethean prejudices. If, as some feminists suggest, pornography is anything that shows women in a degrading light, Taming would rank up where with Debbie does Dallas. A large part of the play's humour concerns the attempt of a man to turn his new wife into the slave of his will, not a very funny subjects to the feminists fighting for the positive portrayal of women...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Taming of the Soft Shoe? | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...plant in the Soviet Union. After World War II, the two countries became antagonists in a cold war that continues to this day. Perhaps it is time to recall an admonition in George Washington's Farewell Address: "The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred is a slave to its animosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1984 | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has not been towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity...Few people have yet considered its implications--that is, the kind of world-view, the kinds of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Grave New World | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Even black servicemen were caught up in the spirit of the white man's crusade. Despite a history of slave labor, Jim Crow laws and racism in the ranks, blacks fought with distinction. Recognition for many was a long time coming. The 761st Tank Battalion, all black except for fewer than a dozen white officers, battled Germans for 183 days without relief. The outfit had to wait 33 years before its veterans could persuade the White House to award them a Presidential Unit Citation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cassettes Go Rolling Along | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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