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...stereotypes fail to connote, and race talk is forced to invent new, increasingly mindless ones. There is virtually no movement up -- for blacks or whites, established classes or arrivistes -- that is not accompanied by race talk. Refusing, negotiating or fulfilling this demand is the real stuff, the organizing principle of becoming an American. Star spangled. Race strangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Backs of Blacks | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...save all of your readers much time and nausea if Schreiber saved us the righteous fireworks and just got to the point. Perhaps if he tried this, he might discover he has no point at all. After reading his last piece, I couldn't help laughing at the title, "Mindless Moralizing." Indeed. Alfred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columnist Self-Righteous and Unconstructive | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

...angry response to the Peninsula issue two years ago was justified and appropriate. But this time around, no one on campus should glorify this mindless moralizing and homophobic hatred. The BGLSA rally last Friday and the follow-up letter in Saturday's Crimson were surely an adequate (if not excessive) response to Mansfield's vicious and baseless attacks on homosexuality...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Mindless Moralizing | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...board. Finally, Hard Target won an R rating with about three minutes lost: a high-impact shot here, a memorable death there. The board might have thought it was protecting teenagers from grim Guignol, but Woo's admirers believe there could be no violence in this film nearly so mindless as the violence done to it. The rating system was preserved, the film's intricate internal rhythm destroyed. "My work is like my child," the mild-mannered director says. "If too many things are cut, it's like cutting my own flesh." Executive producer Sam Raimi, himself an auteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Woo: The Last Action Hero | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Poverty, political chaos and porous borders have turned prostitution into a global growth industry. Mindless of social cost and disease, the skin trade debases millions of women and children. Among the most alarming trends is the explosion of child prostitution in many countries -- including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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