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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epic to end all epics, the terror to transcend all terrors--Happy Birthday to Me! was its name. "Find out the disgusting ways six snobbish high school classmates die." I studied the poster. A screaming student is pinned into the upper left-hand corner by a dominant shish-ke-bab. The top line of the poster reads. "Find out why Richard never ate shish-ke-bab again!" I don't care if this is parody. This is beyond human. I cringed picturing the meat popping out the back of his neck. But the worse was yet to come...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Horror, The Horror | 5/1/1981 | See Source »

...minority in the country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unholy War | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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