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When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stolen Generation | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...radio studio, fitted with old-fashioned microphones - bolsters the theme of communication stressed throughout the piece and also provides audiences with a glimpse of the secrets of studio production. As the onstage Foley artist, Paul Barrett nearly steals the scene with his sharpness and dexterity, using anything from tin cans to a wooden board to create live sound effects for the unfolding drama...

Author: By By JULIE L. rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pet Brick Powerhouse | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...fine sense of humor. Given the opportunity to tell its national story to 3.7 billion television viewers around the world, few nations would include a segment celebrating the postwar suburban boom featuring funny-looking guys and gals in flowered shirts pushing lawn mowers. Or a whole elaborate tribute to tin sheeting and crazy inventions. If its Olympic show is any measure, Australia has great confidence in its national identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Fine Opening for the Olympics | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

Bang, Bazooom, Boing went the questions off the tin sides. The Hector family watched the hectoring in a daze, Brenda holding on to her young daughter like a bag of flour. And when you're in the drum you can't hear yourself speak, which was on display again today as the governor repeatedly referred to the "sub-lim-in-able" message in his advertising. Earlier, Bush had denied a Vanity Fair report that he might have dyslexia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Campaign Is Laughing, It's in Trouble | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

Three of every four Nigerians live in small towns like Ushafa, where roofs are either of tin or brush, and chickens routinely ignored Secret Service instructions to clear a way for the world's most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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