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...them in battle. For the moment, the rebel leader has established his headquarters in Mobutu's former home in Goma. He has dubbed his new residence "the Museum of Shame" because its ostentatious decor mirrors the incorrigible excesses of Mobutu's rule. Visitors to Kabila's headquarters, however, are struck by an even more telling reflection. Much like Mobutu's imprimatur these days, the elegance of his erstwhile estate is largely hollow. Almost everything that is ostensibly an objet d'art is fake--the marbleized plastic dining table, the plinths inlaid with artificial malachite, the spanking new Oriental rugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: WAITING FOR KABILA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...their Pasadena, the place you don't go if you're hip, and those people are heavily into hipness. At Walker Art Center, the custodial staff has to be careful not to leave a pail and a mop unattended during exhibition hours lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...Deserves It: Anyone who wrote off Fargo as a mean-spirited riff on Midwestern accents missed the human heart of a totally original film whose every scene, shot, and performance struck the right, eccentric note

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: AND THE Winner Is... | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

...Hartford struck fast and often, scoring three goals in the first six minutes, including a beautiful quick stick in which Hartford junior Jason Clark threaded the needle to Anzelone for the finish...

Author: By Joe K. Goodwin, | Title: M. Lacrosse Drops Overtime Heartbreaker, 10-9 | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

Public sentiment may have turned against Rice in the Straya affair after her second full-page ad, which struck some as self-promotion. In it, she noted that her most famous vampire, Lestat, just happens to disappear at the end of Memnoch at the abandoned auto dealership where Straya is now. And Copeland, who missed no public relations classes, realizes that the presumably fictional vampire can be as big a draw as Siegfried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ORLEANS: THE VAMPIRE STRIKES BACK | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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