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Word: central (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embattled country last summer, Rushdie attempts to bring reality to a controversy too often plagued by abstraction. But while his two-dimensional snapshots do not make for a convincing political argument, Rushdie does succeed in injecting a startling dose reality into the otherwise hollow debate over U.S. Central American policy...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Nicaraguan Contradictions | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...product of triumphant Indian revolution against the British, Rushdie should bring a fresh viewpoint to the Central' American debate, using his uncommon background to comment insightfully from a vantage point few Western critics can claim...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Nicaraguan Contradictions | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...APRIL 25TH, approximately 200,000 people will rally in Washington, D.C. for justice and peace in Central America and Southern Africa. You should be one of them...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Rally for Responsibility | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...Lazer Tag gun the hottest high-tech toy on the market, although it has been condemned by critics for promoting violence. Now the game's realism appears to have cost a young player his life. One night last week Leonard Falcon, 19, and three young friends were darting about Central Elementary % School in Rancho Cucamonga, a suburban town 45 miles east of Los Angeles, zapping each other with the beams from their guns. During the mock combat, Falcon jumped from behind bushes, assumed a shooting stance and fired his plastic pistol at an obscure figure. In the next instant Falcon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Deadly Gunplay | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...DIFFERENCE is not merely administrative; economically and culturally, Central Square plays Mexico to Harvard Square's United States. The major industry is subway construction, and those who do not labor in the bowels of the earth must chase the total dollars brought in by slumming Harvard Square Yuppies. All this is supervised by the overlords at the Central Square Police Station, an imposing fortress surrounded by an army of black and white cruisers which are used, should the occasion arise, to fill up any empty parking spaces...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Taking the Town | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

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