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...es Salaam's sprawling Kariakoo market, a screaming mob halted buses and dragged off African girls wearing tight dresses or miniskirts. The girls were beaten and some had their clothes ripped off. With fine impartiality, the mob also beat up youths wearing tight-fitting satiny pants. It was "cultural revolution," African style...
...Lost. It was an unhappy choice. Unlike their Chinese counterparts, Tanzania's style-conscious girls are staging a vigorous cultural counterrevolution. At the University of Dar es Salaam, a group of youths paraded placards declaring "Minis for Decadent Europe." In retaliation, coeds donned their shortest minis and routed the green guards with a chant of "Get lost." Girls at a youth hostel unanimously voted that "men should not decide what women will wear." One secretary defended her mini, explaining that it made it easier for her to move around the office and push through a crowded bus. A women...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by João Guimarães Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of stories, published posthumously...
...stories in the collection are as ethereal. Many abound with typical Guimarāes Rosa characters-robust, self-reliant, as tough and conspicuous as knots in sawn planks. But the ones that matter most are those whose concentric fibers appear to loosen until, stubborn obstructions no longer, they begin to flow with the grain...
...love with his wife's deeply feminine nature; yet her serenity makes him irritable and her confidence bruis es his ego. He turns to other women, including his own mother-in-law, before accepting the fact that he has married well in spite of himself. The author writes in an easy, almost slangy style. But despite a refreshingly genial tone and an accurately observed setting, this first effort cries out for a master of magic who could turn some promising notes into a novel...