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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...socialism and the defeat of Fascism. His argument implies the moral failure of any reasonably strategic socialist country, and this reflects a serious lack of consideration of Trotsky's writings on the subject. The Soviets did need to strike some sort of bargain with the West on the eve of World War II. But that does not mean they couldn't have supported the left socialist majority in Spain: was no Western support for either side as it was and there was nothing to lose besides the last semblance of sincerity the Comintern could maintain...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Losing Sight of the Revolution | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...wills with a black beggar boy, who redoubles his efforts every time he is rebuffed. Soon the visitors are made to feel unwelcome, the woman especially so; she decides to abandon both the island and her partner. Her decision reminds her of an earlier tale: "I saw, like Eve, that paradise had become just another place to leave behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Lost Easy in the Islands | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Ordinally a disconcerting sight, a dose of Boy George in the morning is potentially deadly, a fact my mother was unaware of a month ago when she plopped the current issue of Harvard Magazine onto my stomach as I lay in bed recovering from New Year's Eve festivities. "Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sennef, | Title: The Androgyny Myth | 2/9/1985 | See Source »

...again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...

Author: By Nadine F. Pinede, | Title: No Horsing Around | 2/5/1985 | See Source »

That is a close encounter of an opportunistic kind. Mickey was really looking for Nancy's roommate, Eve (Lesley Ann Warren), a sometime streetwalker who bought a bar because it was owned by and named for another woman called Eve. She found the coincidence irresistible. So does Mickey, who was once engaged to the former proprietor. He wanders in one night and finds her replacement an entirely lovable facsimile. Eve is not so sure. And calls up Dr. Love for advice, not realizing that the woman (using an assumed name) with whom she shares refrigerator, bathroom and eventually boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quartet of Cult Objects | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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