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...that febrile setting that a school-integration plan ordered the busing of children between the city's most antagonistic neighborhoods (Irish Catholic South Boston and black Roxbury). It was resisted by every defiant or foot-dragging means possible by a Boston School Committee that exploited the town's inherent bigotry and fear. Lupo contends that Mayor Kevin White, a progressive but hard-nosed political pro, saved Boston from chaos in 1974 by pleading, cajoling and threatening the city's many factions-including its antibusing police-through wearying hours of public meetings, private coffee klatches, telephone calls...
...Edwards was a victim of racial backlash. Segregated church membership is one of the last vestiges of organized racial separation in the South and is fiercely defended by many who have brought themselves to accept integration in other areas. Edwards blamed a small group of bigots, including four "openly defiant, outright racist" church deacons, for his censure...
Gauger followed the marchers to nearby Tahrir Square, the vast downtown center of Cairo near the Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last...
...generation's aesthetic and moral tastes with his youthful exuberance and the sexual swivel of his hips. These days Las Vegas audiences pay huge sums to see the now 40-years-plus entertainer--grown paunchy with dyed hair and capped teeth--struggle through one abbreviated set. The Rolling Stones, defiant, sneering stars of the '60s, now mingle easily among the best of any Social Register crowd, and much the same holds true for other rock stars as well. While Mick Jagger lunches with Lee Radziwill, George Harrison meets Henry Kissinger, and Alice Cooper plays 18 holes with George Burns. Even...
...Rogers specialty. Dominic, for instance, the swarthy, arrogant 18th century hero of Wicked Loving Lies, is "a savage dangerous animal" with "steely" muscles, eyes "like shards of splintered glittering glass" and a contemptuous conviction that "all women are whores at heart." Marisa, the heroine, is a "strange mixture of defiant child and mysterious woman" with "dark-gold curls [and] panther eyes" -not to mention a will of custard. Dominic and Marisa meet on page 42. On page 62 he rapes her. On page 86 he ties her to a bedpost and assaults her again. On page 192 the hero rips...