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...CINEMA, Jan. 13], you included the remarks of a specialized film booker who said, "Even college students" no longer go to foreign films but would rather watch Beavis and Butt-head. Hey, dude, listen up. As a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, I am offended by such a blanket statement. Believe it or not, there are mature, intelligent college students who can understand, follow and appreciate foreign films. We can even grasp all the topics that gramps knew. Your attitude is just part of the epidemic of Generation-X bashing, which is getting tiresome. I and others like me would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...tried to tackle a massive debt. Economists estimate that as much as 75% of the population languishes in lower-class status. Jobs have disappeared; the cost of public services has shot up. As a result, even those close to Fujimori warn against interpreting his welcome in pueblos jovenes as blanket backing. "He shows up in neighborhoods where not many people have work," says one skeptical adviser, "and it's the day's entertainment. Of course they are going to come out and wave." Like Marcial Surco in San Juan de Amancaes: he came out to wave last week, but volunteered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THEIR FACE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...brown adobe and perched on a small hill, is warmed by burning pinon and scented by freshly baked bread. In the late afternoon the surrounding canyon glows with a purple twilight. At night the waters of the Chama River gossip with the birds, and the stars weave a gossamer blanket overhead. No matter what your faith, it is an easy place in which to be spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINDING GOD ON THE WEB | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...form a new union were even more dissatisfied with Local 254. They did not believe that Local 254 could adequately represent them and longer, and accused it of cozying up to the University. "Many people think the leadership of 254 had to be sleeping under a crimson -colored blanket," said one musuem guard. These doubts about the management of Local 254 were the main contributing factor to the creation of the new union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Union Needs Unity and Support | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...Many people think the leadership of 254 had to be sleeping under a crimson-colored blanket," said one museum guard who did not want to be identified. "[Local 254 was] totally ineffective...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, | Title: Security Guards Form New Union | 11/27/1996 | See Source »

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