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...informers, where the constant fear of betrayal to | the Securitate had destroyed people's ability to trust one another and work together, the newfound sense of common cause showed itself in other ways. Women rushed out to the army tanks rumbling along Timisoara's streets and passed baskets of bread and pails of tea through the hatches. One recalled another legacy of Ceausescu's -- the beggaring of Rumania -- when she explained, "We have nothing else to give the soldiers except bread...
...series The Electric Company. The job provided a steady income and made Freeman so famous with the preteen set that, to his great chagrin, he is still stopped in the street by fans. After a while, he felt trapped, hungering for meatier roles but needing the money to put bread on the table for his wife and two daughters. He began drinking heavily. "I'm not an alcoholic or anything," he says. "But I can get out of control." One morning in 1975 he awoke to find himself lying on the floor, passed out from the previous night's binge...
Denied a ration book by the state after the broadcast, Tokes was unable to buy bread, meat or fuel. Parishioners who tried to bring him provisions were confronted by police. The pastor was barred from meeting relatives, and his telephone was shut off. In a surreal form of harassment, authorities occasionally turned on the phone to deliver threats to Tokes, then billed him for the calls at long-distance rates. To protect his four-year-old son, Tokes sent the boy to live with relatives...
...more lonely inside. They are never satisfied. They always need something more. I don't say all of them are like that. Everybody is not the same. I find that poverty hard to remove. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread...
...leave policies, pension rules, hospital visitation rights and laws giving family members the authority to make medical decisions and funeral arrangements. "We are not talking about symbols here," says Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a well-organized gay-rights group. "These are bread-and-butter issues of basic importance to individuals...