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...clothes and adolescent scoliosis. He is small and unassuming, and needs a way to express his strength. But perhaps the most important reason is that Horn’s entire book is built on questions behind questions, on stories behind stories; for every one that surfaces, there are a dozen more hidden underneath...
...Reagan in the White House and the arrival of AIDS, I think there was a backlash to the social-sexual change that took place in the latter part of the '60s and the '70s. So I think it was a more conservative time. I think in the last half-dozen years the brand itself, both in America and globally, has become very hot again - I think there's a fascination with things retro that didn't exist 10 or 15 years...
...Half a dozen participants, including Harvard janitor Bedardo A. Sola, stood on a street corner near the building—wielding signs and informing passersby of their cause—during the day and slept in the Burlington Commons at night, with only water to sustain them...
...nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, [Mahfouz] has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the 'creation of a new Egyptian style' that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter ... Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafés, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. HE IS ALSO KNOWN...
...demonstrators were met by a dozen counter-protestors from the Harvard Republican Club who called the peace activists “hippies” and told them to “stop lying about the military...