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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone knows the truth about this war. It started with unprovoked attacks on civilians, grew into widespread aggression and is now an unchecked attempt to destroy an entire people. Ask any Belgrader whether that's true, and he'll say yes--but he won't be agreeing with you. For most people in Yugoslavia, it's NATO's attacks on Serbia that are the crime, not Serbian attacks on Kosovo. While NATO accuses Serbs of aggression, Serbian media accuse NATO of aggression. When NATO cries genocide, Serbian media cry genocide. And with almost no outside points of reference in Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia: Mind Game | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...search for the original language, the purest language of poetry, inevitably leads Hollander into age-old questionings about the line between art and truth. The really fascinating (and even kind of moving) poems in Figurehead express a powerful anxiety over the duel power of art to both display and destroy truth. Art, Hollander claims, is not only an "'expression'/ of pain and longing, of delight and hope," but also is a physical power in and of itself, intimately connected with physical pain and destruction. Hollander continually focuses on the ultimate emptiness of all art. He obsesses over the power...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Literary Figurehead Writes Serious Poetry | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...plot is similar to the cartoon--in this one Gadget is blown up during a chase with Claw but is miraculously put back together by the seductive surgeon Brenda (Joely Fisher). Brenda also seems to have some vendetta against the Claw, and together they set out to destroy their evil enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...Premise Adapted from a Ted Hughes novel, young Hogarth Hughes befriends a 50-foot robot he finds near his Maine home and tries to protect him from the adults who try to destroy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...Premise Corrupted hockey team threatens to destroy a small Alaska town when it challenges the local team to a match. Mighty Ducks II meets Dangerous Liasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

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