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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the bitter breezes, the thinclads are quite pleased with their new home...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Now It's Home Sweet Home | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

...Ilana Davita Chandal, the precocious daughter of parents active in communist causes in New York City back in the days when political idealism consoled the victims of economic depression. Ilana'a immigrant mother, Anne, descends from orthodox eastern European Jews. Her fervent embrace of Marxism stems from a bitter disillusionment with religion--forever associated with a cold father more interested in following holy men than his family--and from her husband, Michael. The scion of a wealthy New England family, Michael Chandal abandoned riches for rags when, as a youth, he witnessed the murder of union organizers by businessmen...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Music in the Darkness | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

Magubane was arrested on political charges and spent a total of 586 days in solitary confinement. He was subsequently "banned," a restriction forbidding him to meet with more than one other person at a time, effectively forcing him out of journalism. Yet while he remains bitter toward the white ruling elite. Magubane has no plans of leaving; "Even when I was banned, I was still able to eat, to feed my children. South Africa is my country. Only if I could not support myself here would I consider leaving...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Uncovering the Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

WHITE NOISE goes down smoothly, but it leaves the bitter aftertaste we normally associate with paranoia-chic music by David Byrne or Brian Eno. The book is replete with humorous murder scenes, letters to convicts, modern sex, and wiseacre kids. Meet Heinrich, Jack's 14-year-old balding son by a previous marriage: a difficult boy who has one bright moment organizing survival units during the evacuation; he asks his father challengingly, "What is radio? What is the principle of radio? Go ahead, explain. You're sitting in the middle of this circle of people. They use pebble tools. They...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Welcome to America! | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

These are the bitter fruits of the Third Reich. And Reagan would pay homage to the gardeners. In honor Nazis Reagan commats a grave evil. There can be no honor in defending an unjust cause...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Throwing the Hatchet | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

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