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...idea that progress produces a backlash is hardly new -- one need only $ look at Detroit's gracious response to Japan's economic success. But when the issue is the status of American womanhood, this line of argument follows a swollen stream of trend stories that declare feminism shuddered and died sometime during the Reagan era. Many headlines of the '80s called feminism THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED and announced that America had graduated to a postfeminist age of Mommy Tracks, garter belts and men beating drums in the woods. Only in 1991, a year defined by date-rape trials, harassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Feminism | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

During more than five hours of cross-examination, the alleged victim held to her main accusation with steely insistence. Only on Thursday did she let her anger break through. With her eyes swollen from the tears, she leaned forward and wagged her finger at Smith across the courtroom. "What he did to me was wrong," she said. "I don't want to live for the rest of my life in fear of that man. I don't want to be responsible for him doing it to someone else." Presiding judge Mary Lupo ordered jurors to disregard the statement. When attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind The Blue Dot | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...bouncy opening (with all the characters grinning at one another in a Hollywood Squares-style grid), the featherbrained plots (Marcia tries to juggle two dates for the same night, then gets bopped on the nose by a football), the inane dialogue ("I think your problem isn't a swollen nose," says Dad to Marcia, "it's a bruised conscience"), the musical punctuation marks, even spurts of canned laughter. It is, depending on your point of view, either a tribute to a classic piece of TV kitsch or the End of Theater As We Know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bunch That Won't Die | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...Nancy Modiano, a 30-year-old Hamilton, N.J., resident, agrees with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In The Age Of Lyme | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...famished babies lie naked on plastic mattresses. Each day the hospital admits another 10 cases of marasmus -- an advanced state of malnutrition that causes the child's face and body to become as shriveled and haggard as those of a wizened old man. Other children have grotesquely swollen bellies -- a symptom of the starvation syndrome known as kwashiorkor. Before the war, says the hospital's director, there was barely one such case a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching Children Starve to Death | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

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