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...office in 1982 amid promises of "moral renovation," is facing a popular backlash, particularly in the north, where riots against alleged P.R.I. election fraud have sputtered for weeks. Increasingly, Mexican ire is directed at a P.R.I. legacy of corruption, graft and lawlessness that De la Madrid's new broom has been unable to sweep away. Says Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego: "This is the most important and crucial political year since 1968." That was when Mexican troops shot at student demonstrators in the streets of the capital...
...hangar Ray was loading the plane. Four dozen eggs. A case of Old Milwaukee. A case of Budweiser. A roll of roofing tar paper. Cat Chow. Meow Mix. Grape-Nuts flakes. Bread. A broom. "Some of them out there are brand conscious," Carol said. "Some are quality conscious. Some you just know what to get. One cat at the Allison ranch, for instance, won't eat anything but Purina...
Nick Nolte plays a burned-out social studies teacher. He looks like he has been taking eating lessons from Gerard Depardeau, and talks like a graduate from the Wolfman Jack College of Elocution, altogether appearing more fit to push a broom than a pencil. Nolte is supposedly the best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams...
...major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent, which cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos are often first broached on soap operas. In October, for example, the creators of All My Children arranged the maiden, if not maidenly, appearance of a continuing lesbian character...
...field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish...