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...Revolution Books, at 38 JFK Street. Revolution Books offers every manner of leftist literature, and probably has more copies of the Communist Manifesto anywhere outside of, well, Cuba. In addition, Revolution Books has all the paraphenalia that a good leftist needs to lead the fight against oppression (bumper stickers, buttons...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Catering to Harvard Consumers | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...many have no less reverence for it. The lumberjacks of Douglas County are not boisterous back-slapping rubes but pensive men who feel as much a part of this rugged landscape as the black-tailed deer and elk that retreat from the sound of their saws. A popular bumper sticker here declares, FOR A FORESTER, EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY. Rather than surrender the name "environmentalist" to their foes, they have labeled the opposition "preservationists." Many loggers never finished high school but followed their fathers and grandfathers into the woods. They rise in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Owl vs Man | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...officers," whose job, he said, will be to establish countrywide commando groups to oppose a black government. When Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok arrived on a fact-finding trip, he met a heavily armed A.W.B. contingent outside the Welkom police station. Its Land Rover carried a bumper sticker reading IF GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, HOW CAN WE SHOOT LIBERALS? "There is no force in this world," says Terre Blanche, "that will stop ((Afrikaners)) from defending themselves." Vlok has given no sign that the government plans to disarm the A.W.B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Wind Rises in Welkom | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...high pay and new prestige are likely to produce a bumper crop of screenwriter wanna-bes. And by getting better stories, Hollywood may make better movies. Says Black: "Studios now realize that even the best actor in Hollywood can't carry a lousy script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Really Won the Lottery This Time: Hollywod Screenwriters | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...once again took control of the Republican Party, winning a resolution at the state convention declaring the U.S. a "Christian nation." The Republican speaker of the house and the leader of the senate, who had voted to impeach Mecham, were defeated in primaries. On the highways, EV WAS RIGHT bumper stickers began to outnumber EVAN THE TERRIBLE. It was a remarkable turnaround for a Governor who became a laughingstock for defending the use of the word pickaninny and swearing his office was bugged with lasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Back - in Arizona | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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