Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark face of Mariel continues to overshadow the scene. In December, Universal Studios will release Scarface, a film featuring Actor Al Pacino as a Marielito drug dealer. Despite that land of negative image, the honest Cubans working hard in their new home seem to have faith that the true picture of the Marielitos will emerge. "The spirit of the Cuban boat people has not been beaten," says Cuban Artist Alberto de Lama. "They are not an amorphous mass. They are a much suffering people, with deep fears, desperate hopes and dreams of freedom." Says Miami Assistant City Manager Cesar Odio...
Violence broke out only after dark, while Aquino's body was being laid into a temporary cement sepulcher, where it will remain until members of his family can agree on a final resting place. Before masons had cemented the vault closed, several thousand youths returned to the center of Manila, within a block of Malacanang, beating pots and pans and shouting, "Laban!" (fight). They were met by squads of police toting guns and riot shields. As the youths threw rocks and small homemade grenades, the police waded in, eventually dispersing the demonstrators by shooting into...
...Johnny Carson said good night, Jetta Young reached over to switch off the television set. She heard her roommate's footsteps coming down the hall and, glancing up, saw her silhouetted in the doorway of the dark bedroom. "Don't be afraid," she told Young, in a strange, flat voice. "We have company...
Four times Marcos asked me, "Brother,* what would you do if I released you tomorrow? I said, "I don't know, because you keep me in the dark. I have not received any newspapers in five years. If people are happy, I'll just go home to my province and retire there, but if they are unhappy, then you can bet I'll be mounting a soap box. So if you think you've done well, release me. If not, don't release me, because it would only exacerbate the situation." He wanted...
...Robert Fitzgerald inherited these general difficulties and a few specific ones as well. Virgil's Aeneid is one of the two or three most influential texts in Western literature, yet it achieved such eminence in part through an accident of history. Latin retreated to monasteries and survived the Dark Ages in manuscript, while Greek was largely forgotten...