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Back home in Chicago, he was known as a political activist who strongly opposed the U.S. involvement in El Salvador. Deciding to investigate the situation on his own, he became an interpreter for a Chicago television crew-he was fluent in Spanish-and arrived in San Salvador three weeks ago...
Noonan, like everyone else, was wrong. Bourgeois was traveling around the country, walking, riding in buses, sleeping on the ground, talking endlessly with the peasants he hoped to redeem. He had planned to spend two months in the countryside, but he abandoned his journey after only eleven days when he...
TIME has learned that the El Salvador government issued an order for Bourgeois's arrest for "subversion" and that the U.S. embassy was able to hustle him out of the country only after getting the reluctant support of José Napoleón Duarte, head of the ruling junta...
Around the time they discovered blue jeans, Europeans discovered another American invention, the open road, and gave the genre some local twists, such as the persistence of class conceits. Bertrand Blier (Going Places) and Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) established the itinerary; now Diane Kurys, whose Peppermint Soda took...
The Cultural Revolution and rude Red Guards dismissed the traditional Chinese virtue of civility as "bourgeois hypocrisy." But now the Chinese are being encouraged, via government-sponsored organizations like the Polite Language Study Group, to revive a "socialist spirit of comradeship, warmth and concern for others."