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...fame. John Turturro, as Girl 6's agent, screams, "Sharon Stone spread her legs for QT." Madonna, a phone sex boss and strip tease club owner, does what she is wont to do--she talks about sex, "No restrictions, no taboos." Naomi Campbell gets in the act as a pot-smoking phone sex operator who wears tight t-shirts bearing slogans like "Models Suck." Kudos to Spike Lee for donning a 1970s business suit and giving Sherman Helmsley a run for his money as a George Jefferson impersonator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee's 'Girl' Has Gotta Have It | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...number of tenured minority professors at any Ivy League school and you'll see that we're not even the only ones who institutionalized it. But railing against the "craven degenerates" who owned slaves 130 years ago will not change our problems now. We must stop taking pot-shots at historical targets and begin to examine more deeply the roots of our problems. Only then will we be able to solve them. Blaming Bubba won't change a thing. --Lisa Nosal '98 Roswell, Georgia

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Underestimate South's Potential | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...melting pot" may be an old-fashioned description of New York, but candidates for high office are more or less required to ingest as much of this fare as they can physically consume. Call it "Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Looking Glass: THE PEPCID PRIMARY | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...meanings of gay; the word can suggest happiness as a part of homosexuality. The film is bold enough to propose the integration of gays--and by extension of anyone "different"--into an America that at the moment seems ready to take up arms and shoot holes in the melting pot. Indeed, that may be a part of Hollywood's continuing reluctance to confront the issue. As exotics--drag queens or dying swans--gays are fine fodder for movies. But Hollywood sees little need to show that the vast majority of gays are ordinary, reasonably complicated people. They are the folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FINAL FRONTIER | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

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