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...Home Alone pictures, Terminator 2 and most of Steven Spielberg's oeuvre? An attempt by sly Hollywood to suggest that the family values it has but recently renewed its oath to uphold and defend are actually missing in much of America? Or -- worst-case scenario -- an effort to subvert those values right in the middle of movies that are marketed and rated as family entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Huck Finns | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Absolutely Fabulous, a British sitcom, may subvert America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...Rainbow) Pynchon. "Yet there remains about Spike's work what is sometimes an almost uncomfortable complexity," proclaims Pynchon, later anointing Jones as "a conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action verb, pithily expressing what the man did to music. He drove it into the ground, he impaled it on a drumstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Spike Up the Band | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...letter, form Ford to President Nathan M. Pusey '28, suggested ways that Pusey and the Harvard Corporation might be able to subvert the Faculty's recommendations for the future of the Reserve officers training Corps (ROTC). The Faculty had voted in February 1969 to stop giving credit for ROTC courses and to reduce ROTC to an extracurricular activity...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: 'Mole' Reveals Harvard Secrets | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...letter, from Ford to President Nathan M. Pusey' 28, suggested ways that Pusey and the Harvard Corporation might be able to subvert the Faculty's recommendations for the future of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). The Faculty had voted in February 1969 to stop giving credit for ROTC courses and to reduce ROTC to an extracurricular activity...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: `Mole' Reveals Harvard Secrets | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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