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...returned to Nigeria in 1960, the same year his homeland gained independence from British colonial rule. Soyinka's adult career coincides almost exactly with the brushfire of nationalism that swept across Africa, a phenomenon that filled his writings with bursts of hope and despair. He eloquently expressed the ideals of black nationalism and spoke out harshly whenever they seemed in danger of being compromised or betrayed. In 1967 he was arrested by the Nigerian government, charged with assisting the Biafran rebels in their struggle for a separate state and held for 22 months. Soyinka later recounted this ordeal...
Here are the facts. George Bachrach's parents were Viennese Jews who escaped the Holocaust. His grandfather was not so lucky. He was murdered in a death camp. Bachrach's parents--like some other shellshocked survivors--had their son baptized. But young George always considered himself Jewish. As an adult, he became an active member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. He has been one of the area's staunchest supporters of Soviet Jewry. He has always been proud of his Jewish heritage...
Gordon-Sinclair plays Alan, a studio photographer with romantic difficulties. It's been a few years since Gregory's Girl, so Alan is to young-adult comic pathos what Gregory was to the adolescent version. Alan sets out to leave lover Mary (Irina Brook) after debating the 50 ways, only to find that Mary has taken the direct approach by packing up and moving...
...time machine. For while Robert Zemeckis' box-office champ of 1985 was a hip '80s teenager's look at his funny parents back in the '50s, Peggy Sue (whose script was written long before Future's release) is a panorama of the same terrain as seen by an adult full of remembrance and regret. The teen traveler played by Michael J. Fox was hurled back to a time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier. She is literally reviving the ghosts of memory, as when she picks up a 1960 telephone...
Delegates to the three-day conference reaffirmed such objectives as decriminalizing adult prostitution and abolishing red-light districts. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was a pressing issue. Said Margo St. James, founder of the National Task Force on Prostitution, a U.S. prostitutes' group: "People are too afraid to come out in the streets these days." But most of the women were irrepressibly optimistic. One wore a T shirt emblazoned with the message GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN, BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE...