Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Possibly this tone of civilized irreconcilability stems from a feeling on the part of Australian Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli) that he was himself a stranger in a curious corner of a strange land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book...
Will the 1985 rally continue? As always, Wall Street opinion is divided. Says Peter Furniss, a senior vice president at Shearson Lehman Bros.: "This is like a frat party. We're having fun now, but soon somebody is going to call the cops, and the party will be over." Furniss...
Only a few hundred yards away, the marchers encountered a line of policemen stretched single file across the street. Undeterred, Walesa, Lis, about 100 supporters and some foreign newsmen elbowed their way through. Regrouping, the police kept the main body of the demonstrators from advancing. A little farther down the...
"It's pretty nerve-wracking to fight meter maids and cops who could care less about anyone but themselves," says Levine, who argues that police should give business a little leeway in light of crowded on-street parking in the Square.
Despite the severity of the detention laws, much of the abrasiveness of petty apartheid is gradually disappearing from city life, in part because of criticism from Western countries and in part, perhaps, because the rules of social apartheid are just too complicated and arbitrary to enforce. In Johannesburg today, a...