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...form of qualified freedom that had any appeal for the nationalist forces rising in all of the republics. When the three Baltic states insisted on regaining their separate status, he was even willing to look the other way last January as security forces used tanks and guns to suppress the independence movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolutions Farewell | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...People need to be reminded constantly that this is not a parochial issue. It's not about one writer of Third World origin in trouble with a Third World power. The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. This is not just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Speech Is Life Itself: SALMAN RUSHDIE | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photographs, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "purpose was to drum up world sympathy and political and financial support for Jewish causes" had led "a conspiracy to suppress the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Obligation to Publish Lies | 12/10/1991 | See Source »

Hughes similarly brings out the ironies of the script, often without speaking. With active eyebrows and lips pursed to suppress laughter, he successfully reminds the audience of the world outside Tilghman County. His character's growth from introvert to boisterous raconteur is believable in spite of its rapidity...

Author: By Amanda Schaffer, | Title: Laughing at the Klan | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...convinced that the basement of Cabot was an inner-city bus stop--the set for Fool for Love merely rearranges the cinder blocks into a sink and adds a bed and a table to represent May's motel room. In addition, the "special effects" fall flat. The audience must suppress giggles each time a character leaves the room and mashes his feet in the gravel off-stage...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: Much More Than a Western Flick | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

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