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...their adoring public. "My favorite color is green," says Dipsy, played by John Simmit, rolling his eyes. "That's all I'm allowed to say." And if the Teletubby creators had their way, we might not even know that much. Why the secrecy? "We don't want to destroy the magic," people involved with the show explain again and again, obviously infected by that numbing, Teletubby-like repetition that mesmerizes children. Or, as the show's co-creator Anne Wood says, "We want to preserve the whole reality of the Teletubbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Teletubbies Revealed | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...probably knew little of hate or history spurred the black community to demand its rights. Stephen, who never tried to wound or even threaten his killers, could have been an example of how to bring change peacefully, but, instead, he is now a symbol for a group determined to destroy and condemn...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...court except to plead guilty to some misdemeanor whose connection with the case at hand is not immediately apparent. Presumably these are the sort of lawyers who, unlike Starr, know how to leak information without leaving fingerprints and, unlike Ginsburg, have better things to do on Sunday morning than destroy their client's case on network television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Pillow Fight, Interrupted | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Today's Supreme Court ruling upholding Congress's "decency" requirement in NEA arts funding will come as a relief to the arts organization. "This allows the NEA to move beyond a controversy over a handful of artists which threatened to destroy the institution," says TIME correspondent Daniel Levy. "Most NEA money is spent funding uncontroversial local art projects, and people trying to eliminate the NEA will find it more difficult to whip up emotions over that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Decency' Ruling Does the NEA a Favor | 6/25/1998 | See Source »

Sourani said that Israel's systemic oppression of Palestinians, along with the abuses of the Palestinian Authority, threaten to destroy Palestinian civil society and throw the peace process into jeopardy...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaker Discusses Civil Rights in Middle East | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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