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...collision. On the western banks of Lake Lanier, about 30 miles north of bustling Atlanta, it is an amiably sleepy town of about 2,000 souls (all of Forsyth County has only 38,000). Its biggest employer is a poultry-processing plant; its biggest social activity for adolescents is drag-racing outside the K mart. But for all its bucolic torpor, Cumming bears a dark stain on its history: an 18-year-old white woman was beaten and raped there one day in 1912 and, before she died, named three blacks as her attackers. One was lynched, the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism On The Rise | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...become that in many parts of South Africa they can terrify township residents simply by holding up boxes of matches. When they are not carrying out spontaneous attacks, they may hold kangaroo "people's courts" that are designed to intimidate the public. In a typical court session, young toughs drag the accused forward, inform him or * her of the charges and then pronounce and execute the sentence. The outcome is never in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...begins veteran Director Sidney Lumet's latest flick, The Morning After, a thriller which saunters through the demimonde of Los Angeles, a synthetic world of high society hairdressers, third-rate actresses, and drag queens...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...various shadowy transactions that North oversaw seem likely to drag the arcane world of the private weapons dealers into its brightest public spotlight ever. Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel appointed to look into all aspects of Iranscam, has been empowered to investigate the private networks that supplied the contras. The special Senate and House investigating committees that will hold public hearings probably beginning next month intend to probe the role of the arms merchants as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Murky World of Weapons Dealers | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

William W. Provost '88, who has directed several productions at Harvard, said he enjoyed the lecture because, "If an author doesn't know everything that is written into a text, then a director has the right to drag something out of the text that no one else has seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Stoppard: Interpretation is Relative | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

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