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...Doper" is a 20-minute documentary on the lifestyle of a working-class, post-high school stoner, who has no difficulty in remaining high every waking hour and still winning the "Employee of the Month Award" at the factory at which he works. The film is subtly humorous, but remarkably nonjudgmental in its delivery...

Author: By Amina Runyan-shefa, | Title: New York Underground The Alternative to Alternative | 10/20/1994 | See Source »

Ryan also received a "Stoner to English Dictionary," as a tribute to her rolein the Oliver Stone film, "The Doors...

Author: By Shine MAY Hung, | Title: `Woman of the Year' Ryan Gets Parade, 'Pot' | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising a solution: "A backlash is growing. What I believed was an almost universal compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving the Cold Shoulder | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand out small bribes of $20, called red envelopes, just to meet the people with the wares, which included the nearly extinct Amur leopard as well as gibbons, golden monkeys and even eagles. TIME's Tad Stoner was permitted, on an exclusive basis, to accompany her during one week of her startling sojourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grisly And Illicit Trade | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...many are children of the '50s. Their image of an ideal family comes from TV shows like Father Knows Best; their notion of the ideal mother is the one played by Jane Wyatt: never rattled, always at home. The irony is that this "family of nostalgia," as Madeleine Stoner at the University of Southern California calls it, was largely an aberration that flourished for only a couple of decades after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Family: The Great Experiment | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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