Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bender's offspring are in their ways almost as unhelpful as these strangers. Her daughter Valerie (Heather Tobias, in the movie's only overwrought, misjudged performance) can buy everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...
This space normally belongs to the editor and publisher of the magazine you hold in your hands, used by them to point with pride to particular stories and introduce you to the people who created them. Almost never is there any need to talk about the extended family of other magazines and the book, video and cable enterprises that make up the whole of the parent Time Inc. corporation...
...advances, the future remains clouded for many black colleges. - In 1987, 17 of the U.N.C.F.'s members were in the red. Last summer Dallas' Bishop College went under after a long struggle with bankruptcy. Worse still, the overall percentage of African Americans going to college has been declining for almost a decade, shrinking the pool of potential applicants to black schools...
Such worries seem far away to Angela Addison, a black senior at the selective Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, a high school where African Americans are in the minority. Addison could go on to almost any of the nation's top-ranked colleges, but she is convinced that Hampton will provide the right environment. "I want to go someplace different," she explains. "I want to go to a prestigious black college." So, it seems, do many others...
...bomb exploded from underneath. Just before the vehicle burst into flames, Mrs. Rogers jumped out, shaken but unharmed. The van was gutted by the blast. Shards of metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf last July 3, killing all 290 people aboard. Rogers gave the order to fire missiles at the plane in the mistaken belief that...