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Most anyone referring to Valentine's Day will tell you sappy tales about romantic evenings or fourth-grade kisses behind the oak tree. Some will plea for pity because they haven't ever had a date. It's safe to say that your average American male will always manage to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts from the Heart | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

Cocteau's movie is the sort of dream you would have if you fell asleep with your head on a deluxe illustrated edition of Grimm's tales. It is perhaps the most sumptuous and satisfying version of a fairy tale ever put on celluloid, candy for the eyes and a...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Jean Cocteau's Fuzzy Valentine | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

The Justice's skillfully rendered tales were seldom sweet. He liked to tell his law clerks about the time he confronted a "moderate" white-supremacist politician in the Jim Crow South with the fact that contrary to the segregationist promise of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man: THURGOOD MARSHALL | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

A tabloid industry flourishes on tales of celebrity transgressions. D.C. Comics killed Superman because D.C. Comics executives knew that if the Man of Steel bit the dust, Americans would buy the comic book.

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Adventures of SuperHillary? | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

"I find myself more relaxed with Reba coming over the airwaves," George Bush once wrote in an essay in Country America magazine. But McEntire isn't relaxing, she's cathartic. Her songs tend to be simple tales about someone who done her some wrong.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Heartland | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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