Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduced to irradiated rubble over 20 years ago; without Soviet arms and Cuban troops the Black nationalist regime in Angola would have been overrun by South Africa's racist army: and today the Red Army in Afghanistan is the one hope Afghan women have for emancipation from illiteracy, the bride price and enslavement to feudal tribesmen. It is unfortunately not true that Cuba and the USSR are supplying Salvadoran leftists and Nicaraguan Sandinistas with arms. Here you have an example of the Stalinist bureaucracies betraying revolution in Central America in order to "appease" U.S. imperialism. As Trotskyists, we want...
...Appalachian Coal Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival...
...Give My Baby the Chair (2 hr.). TV movie about blind, interracial couple living in South Africa whose seven-year-old dyslexic son has been accused of rape and murder. Linda Blair and Edward Asner. Tender, raging. 8:00 Sports Spectacular: Bowling from Halifax (R) 8:30 Brighton War Bride (5 hr.). A 78-part BBC series on British hotel life during World War I, specifically January-March 1917. Superb cast...
...marital saga of John Ruskin, the most famous art critic of the age. On his wedding night, the 29-year-old Ruskin was paralyzed with disgust when confronted with the first naked female body he had ever seen. Promising to consummate the marriage six years hence, Ruskin told his bride Effie Gray that childbirth would ruin her beauty as well as interfere with their traveling in Europe so he might look at art. When the six years were up, Ruskin reneged, accusing the distraught Effie of insanity. She countered by obtaining an annulment on the basis of her husband...
...Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring, hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito. Only the week before he had agreed to pay his pre-Oona protegee Joan Berry $2,500 down, legal costs, and support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house...