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Prophet of the plague
Terry Diggs
Charlton Heston's dark view of his fellow humans makes him a perfect president of the NRA.
The Undiscovered Country
Gary Krist
Gary Krist
reviews 'The Undiscovered Country' by Samantha Gillison.
The truism show
Jame Poniewozik
'The Truman Show' is better than the facile critics who use it to denounce TV.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Kitsch is bustin' out all over.
Charles Taylor
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis head for Hollywood in a '50s musical comedy that's 100 percent cheese.
The sad death of a soccer maverick
Tamsin Todd
The tortured life of Britain's first openly gay soccer star ends in tragedy.
Instant histories of the browser wars
Scott Rosenberg
How can the full tale of Microsoft vs. Netscape be told while the story
is still unfolding? Reviews of 'Barbarians Led by Bill Gates' and
'Speeding the Net.'
Losing their shirts
Tanya Shaffer
Two women find that to see a fetish priest in Ghana, they have to bring a lot of money -- and take off their tops.
Music Feature: Middle-Age Riot
Mark Athitakis
Punk veterans Shellac and Sonic Youth play art-rock for art's sake
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Rock 'n' roll heaven
Charles Taylor
Walter Hill's trashy extravaganza "Streets of Fire" packs a bittersweet, youthful wallop.
Class warfare
Ira Eisenberg
In the second of two articles, a teacher who was on the front lines describes how a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality.
The showdown at San Leandro High
Ira Eisenberg
A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war.
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David Horowitz
WARREN BEATTY, RICH HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL, ATTEMPTS TO SHOVE A TATTERED MARXISM DOWN POOR SUCKERS' THROATS.
Where it's Art
Sarah Vowell
Sound Salvation is a biweekly music column by Sarah Vowell. Beck puts his collages onto canvas alongside those of his late grandfather, Fluxus artist Al Hansen
Are we the world?
Andrew O'Hehir
Despite our uneasy place on Planet Soccer, the United States will be vying for glory as the globe's most passionately watched sporting event begins.
No future in Tomorrowland
Janelle Brown
Instead of predicting future technologies, Disney's updated playground opts for the predictable.
Punch drunk
Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick reviews 'The Time of Our Time' a collection of essays by Norman Mailer
Letter from Jakarta
Jeff Pulice
To leave or not to leave? Jeff Pulice vividly describes his own reaction and the reactions of his expatriate friends to the turmoil in the streets and the uncertainties ahead.
Violence or entertainment?
Dwight Garner
A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles.
Student protests bloom
Rolf Potts
In a letter from South Korea, expat American teacher Rolf Potts takes a close look at one of the students' annual spring rituals -- political protests.
Let's Get This Straight: The browser war goes thermonuclear
Scott Rosenberg
As government lawyers move on Microsoft, what's at stake for the rest of us?
The tomb of the unknown soldier
Roxanne Nelson
The tomb of the unknown soldier: Roxanne Nelson describes a poignant cemetery -- and an unforgettable encounter -- in southern France.
Where the gals are
Laura Miller
Forget grrrl power: The new feminine mystique is neurotic, self-absorbed and still boy-crazy, according to a current crop of pop-cultural heroines.
Young, black and too white
Karen Grigsby Bates
Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
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