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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUT as the boy comes closer to understanding his father, he draws closer to his other family members as well. His mother is a constant but reticent presence throughout the book. Her character is sadly underdveloped, but the boy hints at the influence she has in his life, and at...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Coping With Death, Possessing a Life | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Character assassination by innuendo is hardly new, but these tactics are really all the militants have left. The legal case against the Fly Club (if indeed it ever emerges from MCAD at all) is tenuous at best. Even Perspective now admits that if the clubs are really private property there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shouting Lies Against the Clubs | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Next month the movement to return Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenian control will attempt to broaden its character by transforming itself into a Baltic-style Armenian All-National Movement. Like similar organizations in Estonia and Lithuania, the group will officially be committed to supporting perestroika, though its agenda may not be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armenia | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Seductive yet deserted, maternal yet undependable, witty and gay in the midst of poverty and squalor, supremely self-confident and supremely self- destructive, Elise might easily seem nothing more than that old literary standby the bundle of paradoxes. As played by Nelligan, the character comes exuberantly alive. Vitality and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Glamour in A Housecoat SPOILS OF WAR | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

When House minority leader Robert H. Michel went high-stepping down memory lane last week, he wound up in the brier patch. In a televised interview, the Illinois Republican embellished a fond recollection of Amos 'n' Andy -- the old radio show denounced by civil rights organizations for its stereotypical portrayals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Amos 'n' Andy 'n' Bob | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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