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N.A.A.C.P. Passes on Farrakhan's march, but benefits anyway with spike in applications last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Oct. 30, 1995 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...Underground comes to Boston and it would seem a breathless piece of good luck. A bit of the raunchy, strange and mindlessly self-absorbed art scene only New York musters. Something really disgusting, narcisistic, maybe even disturbing. Sort of like "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" without all that claymation...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Short & NASTY underground | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...team puts forth its best effort, sequencing a bump, a set and a spike together--and the other team throws it all back in its face. It's not just a defeat; it's a humiliation...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: ATHLETE of the WEEK | 10/18/1995 | See Source »

With Jose, Forcum, Hart and Logan strong, Harvard kept on working well. The Crimson soon closed the gap to 13-13, but a missed Cornell serve gave Harvard the match point. A Forcum spike later, and Harvard repeated last year's five-game victory against Cornell...

Author: By Kelly M. Gushue, | Title: W. Spikers Squeak by Cornell | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...hide their feelings about color. The only ways they can conceal themselves are to "pass" or disappear into white culture (this is a major theme of early African-American fiction), or to develop secret forms of knowledge or communication, as slaves once did. In the opening scene of Spike Lee's movie Clockers, street kids deliberately are shown to speak unintelligibly, as if to say, "This is not your world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NATION OF PAINED HEARTS | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

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