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...children on The Cosby Show is unthinkable and exciting to young Singaporeans, for instance. Fatalism about entrenched social arrangements is challenged by pop's anything-goes quality. In Africa and Latin America, black American pop stars bring with them an implicit hopefulness; Thriller is thrilling partly as a totem of black achievement. Hollywood does not promote revolution but rather a flashy kind of Yankee individualism--spontaneous, self-reliant and acquisitive. "American film exports the American dream," says Charlton Heston, "which is achievable, not a fantasy. What film has done to the developing world is to change its sense of possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Goes the Culture | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Screenwriters may be low on Tinseltown's totem pole, but they have one obvious advantage over more glamorous folk, like stars and directors: they get paid whether their movies are made or not. Paramount's vice president of production, David Madden, estimates that 900 to 1,000 assigned-scriptwriters are in the "or not" category, turning out scripts that are shown around town, perhaps optioned, then stuffed back into the desk drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Phantoms of Hollywood | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...also the first female dean of the GSAS and the first female Master of a River House, and she has become second only to Graduate School of Education Dean Patricia Graham on Harvard's female administrative For totem pole...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: A Busy Woman | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

...memorial has become a totem, so much so that its tiniest imperfections make news. Last fall somebody noticed a few minute cracks at the seams between several of the granite panels. The cause of the hairlines is still unknown, and the builders are a little worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Hush, Timmy - This Is Like a Church | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Hart roweled Mondale from end to end of the country, leaving the Democratic candidate wounded and bleeding. On the Republican side, surfacing later, were half a dozen baby boomers who wrote the Republican platform to their wishes and who regarded Reagan, as one of them said, "more as a totem than a leader. We're trying to elect a man ten years past his prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Shaping of the Presidency 1984 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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