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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows how many council members agreed with what was being said [by opponents of the bill] but were just sitting on their hands, inhibited by P.C.-ism?" Myers says. "I think political correctness is an absolute trap in that it doesn't let people say what they want to. The hate just builds...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Throwing Off the Veil of Political Correctness | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...meantime, Clinton appeared to be laying the groundwork for a disclosure of his own when he said he could not remember whether he too had solicited campaign money at the White House. The President seemed eager to avoid a trap of his own making, telling reporters he could not flatly rule out ever saying "while I was talking to them [supporters], 'Well, we need your help' or 'I hope you'll help us.'" But after the press conference, a White House aide told TIME that Clinton has been overheard asking donors in receiving lines and at informal gatherings for "support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEGAL TENDER | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...hasn't new technology always been prone to all sorts of errors? Why, the Wright brothers' first plane was probably a death trap, and now it's safer to fly than drive...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: techTALK | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...beaten and pushed around as its title character. The ART warps and distorts any semblance of coherence within the play. The production races through over twenty-five scenes in under sixty minutes, scarcely allowing the audience to breathe, let alone to analyze or reflect. Woyzeck (Thomas Derrah) drops through trap-doors, dashes up ladders and circles the stage. Scene changes resemble film cuts; music clips and sound effects disorient the audience MTV-style. The production behaves as a curious machine, moving in various, divergent directions...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: 'Nature Unidealized, Transmogrified Humans' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

Danilewitz, however, falls into precisely this trap when he uses the Crown Heights incident to encourage Jews to reevaluate their relationship with African-Americans and "realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black-Jewish Alliance Has Fruitful History | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

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