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...lives in the TIME Letters department are not glamorous. Alone at our word processors, the wrath of irate readers squarely on our shoulders, we sit and write letters. We write cajoling letters, apologetic letters, defiant letters, witty letters, pleading letters but, always, letters. There are no awards and no bylines, only signatures. But every once in a blissful while, a reader is touched enough by a letter to write back...
...center of it all is the 120,000-sq.-ft. casino, a space as defiant of convention as it is of taste. Dumont has spurned the dark burgundies and jangling reds of most gambling halls in favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down...
...ordinance, effective May 5, doesn't exactly outlaw cruising. But when the traffic gets bumper-to-bumper bad, police will hand out warnings. Second offenders will be fined. Still, cruisers are defiant. "I've waited all my life to cruise," said Billy Moorehead, 17. "We're going to stay...
...first shock of the Sandinista defeat wore off, Nicaragua's fault lines reemerged. Within a day of the elections, scattered incidents of violence erupted in Managua and rural towns as Chamorro and Ortega supporters clashed. By Tuesday Ortega was sounding like his usual defiant self. At a public rally, he roared, "They want the government. We give it to them. We will rule from below." A peaceful transition, he cautioned, required the immediate demobilization of the contras. Warning that "the change of government by no means signifies the end of the revolution," Ortega was deliberately vague about the future role...
When Muslims demand these rights, we call them "Islamic fundamentalists," "militants," "extremists," "insurgents" and "rebels." A leading American newspaper calls the Popular Front's supporters part of a "defiant and sullen populace," and likens the Popular Front itself to a "religious cult" (New York Times, January 25, 1990). On the other hand, when there was violent protest in Romania, the American media applauded it. The execution of the "tyrant" Ceaucescu was cause for celebration. There is an amazing absence of outrage in the media against our own use of violence to "liberate" the Panamanians...