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...doomed attempt to defend a remnant of apartheid even as South Africa transforms itself into a multiracial state. One of 10 remote domains created and recognized only by Pretoria's old leadership, Bophuthatswana -- nicknamed "Bop" -- symbolizes apartheid's failed ambition to confine South Africa's blacks in putatively independent tribal homelands. It is home to Sun City, the lavish gambling resort that has been loudly boycotted by many American performers. President Lucas Mangope, who has ruled as a dictator since the homeland was founded in 1977, suffered such a stinging rebuke from his own people last week that on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apartheid Apocalypse | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Tribal Massacre in Burundi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week March 6-12 | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...rule of the confessional is: don't brag -- that's not what you're here for. Hamill violates the rule from time to time. His confessional reproduces the clarity and pain of his childhood and many of its other Brooklyn textures -- the street games of ring-o-levio, the tribal solidarities of the neighborhood, the gangs. Then, as the book proceeds to a record of his own long years of drinking (his often passionate column for the New York Post, his marriage that broke up over drinking, his relationship with the actress Shirley MacLaine), it begins to replicate too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taut Wire of Childhood Memory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...steal at exactly $1,000 and ideal for a dorm room is a 20 year-old southwest Persian tribal rug from Chiraz, 5 by 8, pile weaving; or semi-antique Kilims ($995) and scatter-rugs ($895) with natural dyes from Church Street Rugs, 28 Church Street...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Gifts for One Thousand Dollars | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

...gloomy kitchen. Pauses like these counterbalance the near-hysteria of Leigh's social caricatures. And the breathing space they provide force one to contemplate how close to reality those caricatures are. Because you can take it from me that British society does still revolve around antiquated, almost tribal social rituals. And Mike Leigh does dissect them with a frightening precision in this film...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: Class Wars | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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