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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Gregory Nava pointedly demonstrates, however, that this little paradise is at the same time a mini-Hell. Enrique's father, Arturo Xuncax, a coffee bean picker, secretly tries to organize his fellow laborers. "The rich came here. They're not from here. To them, the peasant is just a pair of arms," he tells his son before running off to his fateful meeting. The workers are betrayed by a fellow villager and ambushed by government soldiers. When Enrique runs to the scene, he finds his father's severed head dangling from a tree. In a rage, he stabs...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Tunnel to Freedom? | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

...desperately lack. It is precisely because Hopper is such a loyal patriot and sensitive lover that the film so frequently seems maudlin, and precisely because the preps wear checkered sweaters while jeering at the working class boys that the characters seem like cardboard replicas from an I.,I., Bean catalogue...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: No Casablanca | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...actual groundbreaking is years away, preparation has already started. The guidebook for this magical museum was published late last year. Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, by Mark Green (a former Nader Raider) and Gail MacColl (a veteran preppie parodist who worked on The Preppie Handbook and an L.L. Bean catalogue spoof), diligently tallies the seemingly endless stream of Reagan's assertions that only the "Great Communicator" himself has been able to substantiate...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Reagan's Wing | 1/13/1984 | See Source »

...Book Store, Manager Chris Catchick said that publishers plan certain books around the Holiday season. "You know that the books released now wouldn't be released any other time of year," Catchick said, citing humorous books, such as "More Items from Our Catalog," a second spoof on the L.L. Bean Catalog, as big sellers at Christmas. He added that expensive art books are popular gift items but that "they can't sell well unless they are displayed...

Author: By Rachael H. Inker, | Title: Local Shops Prepare for Holiday Season | 11/29/1983 | See Source »

...Chris Hannan LB 40 Ted Polich FB 42 Jim Fadule WB 44 Paul Sharon FB 45 Rob Hebert MG 46 Dan Bennett LB 47 Kevin Garvin LB 48 Brent Wilkinson LB 49 Bruno Perdoni MG 50 Joe Azelby LB 51 Dave Fanikos MG 52 Charlie Godinez MG 53 Larry Bean LB 54 John Francis C 55 Andy Nolan LB 56 Jerry Garvey MG 57 John Gibbons LB 58 Morgan Rector LB 59 Sam Jensen C 60 Ben Thio OG 61 Joseph Ippolito OG 62 Michael Pascucl OG 63 Roger Caron OT 64 Alex Hart C 65 Ed Curiel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard numerical roster | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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