Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made Fiats and even to visit relatives in the U.S. -rare pleasures in a country where the average annual income is $1,380. Bureaucrats are offered-and often accept -bribes for authorizing private use of scarce, rationed building materials, signing building permits, or simply not noticing the existence of brand-new villas in the countryside. As the national daily Zycie Literackie put it: "There was a saying in the town that an official arrives with a briefcase, and after two years he has a car and after three more a luxury villa...
...begins to understand how a couple of thirties CCNY kinds could find drama and purpose in romantic radicalism, and how their social lives never allowed that brand of radicalism to mature. Paul and Rochelle did hold just complaint. Their poverty and their struggle to conquer it had to bemuse their pride and sensitivity; only their occasional college freedom, and radical larks could give them the belief that they were free to live as they pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were...
Fans of Cartoonist Charles Schulz will recognize that the center's publicity gimmick is a direct steal from the comic strip Peanuts, in which Good Ol' Charlie Brown's mean, cranky friend Lucy deals out her own brand of caustic counseling from a "lemonade" booth. But Psychiatrist Weininger apparently knows his Freud better than he knows his Schulz; at this time of year, Lucy's fee is not a nickel. Every October, because it is less comfortable to man an open booth in cold weather, she raises her price to seven cents...
...plot turns on an invasion from the troubled north by strange blacks equipped with European weapons and a shabby Asian brand of revolution. Francois, a loyal Bushman friend and the pretty 13-year-old daughter of a neighboring rancher escape the massacre by taking refuge in a cave, which Francois has stocked with provisions. There is a strong note of never-never to the story, and while the time apparently is the late 1950s, the impression persists that the author really is saying farewell to his own childhood in Africa decades before...
...Fitzsimmons has been passing more, giving up shots and in general playing a better brand of basketball. Ken Wolfe is playing tight defense and trustrating opposing backcourts. Tony Jenkins is off to a fabulous start, shooting and rebounding strongly. Hal Smith has improved tremendously and is much more aggressive. Gene Wilkinson is still erratic but has shown moments of brilliance. Floyd Lewis has worked hard to regain his condition and confidence, and in the B.U. game looked like the Floyd Lewis I read about. In the same game, James Brown did what everyone knows he is capable of doing...