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Appiah, who has spent much of his career withDuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry LouisGates Jr., admits that his view on race mightsound "weird" to nonacademics...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Appiah To Chair New Panel On Race | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...clan of STORYVILLE a certain vibrancy. The story line -- in which the family scion (a well-cast James Spader) runs for Congress, investigates a murder in which he could be implicated and sorts out the circumstances surrounding his father's suicide -- is twisty and full of colorful characters and weird behavior. Director Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks, has made a good-looking movie, combining intellectual ambition with darkly glamorous conflicts between private demons and public trust. Storyville is good, serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return trip to Denmark but sank into insanity in Copenhagen, where the police picked him up as a grimy street bum lugging burlap sacks of his own -- to them, weird-looking -- paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return From Alienation | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...think that in some kind of weird way Desert Storm hurt? You were perceived as doing so well over there that the nation expected you to handle domestic affairs equally well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush on the Record | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...view of politics--that it's "weird" and "strange"--contrasts sharply with that of his predecessor. Anthony R. Dolan, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Reagan speechwriter, put that president's philosophy best: "Ideas are the stuff of politics," he said...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Bush: Sleeping Scared | 8/11/1992 | See Source »

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