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She walked in quietly and a shoe caught her motherly attention. It was sitting on my bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Sound familiar? It should: the corrupted priest following for the modifications made here for the benefit of the TV generation) has been around and has been satirized since the earliest days of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet Farley is the latest, the most inventive and complex, in this reliquary of...

Author: By Yoo-sun Lee, | Title: The Fast Track... ...and the Beaten Track | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

It is a pathetic irony that Hughes sought refuge in one of the nation's least populous states only to find it too crowded and dangerous (he attempted bribery to stop nuclear testing in Nevada). It is a further mockery by fate that this man who was once given a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Money in High Places Citizen Hughes | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

His new canvases were documentary. They were about power and torture on the fringes of Western politics in Latin America: "White Squad" killers, interrogators, mercenaries, the seedy and deadly emissaries of order. The paintings were huge, some of the figures nearly twice lifesize. Tacked unstretched to the wall like tapestries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Human Clay in Extremis | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

The confession of high-level Mafioso Tommaso Buscetta [WORLD, Oct. 15] is a victory for Italian and American authorities. However, we should remember that the Mafia is similar to Communism, fascism or any form of terrorism. It is an alternative political system that arises out of poverty, ignorance, anarchy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 5, 1984 | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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