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...serious threat, is now a spent force, reduced to a 23% following in the latest polls. In the future, it seems likely that the more vengeful clauses of their language legislation will be revoked. I dream that some day it will be legal again for an English-language bookshop in Montreal to mount a bilingual sign on the street, just as it is now possible in Paris, another French-speaking city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reverberations in America's Attic | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Culture Clash. Touches of Little Italy and Chinatown. The Beat-era City Lights Bookshop, where Jack Kerouac gave drunken poetry readings, and the Purple Onion, the takeoff nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Happening off the Floor | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Management at the store's two competitors. Panglass Bookshop and Starr Book Shop. yesterday welcomed their new rival. "We won't have the same books at the same time." explained Starr's owner, who refused to be identified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Bookstore To Open in Old Pizza Locale | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...Spiral" ads have been discontinued except one cooperative ad with the Lauriat bookshop, according to Adrienne Alger, a public relations officer at Houghton Mifflin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biogate Update | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...massacre in Parliament Square sent Budapest mad. The Soviet embassy was raided, Soviet automobiles fired, the contents of a Soviet bookshop burned. Workers fought their way into an arms depot at outlying Fot, got themselves machine guns. Others made gasoline bombs out of wine bottles. Soon Soviet armored cars were burning in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1956: World Crisis, Appalling Events: Hungarian Revolution | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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