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...much to contend with: a hotel management that wants to evict him, a slimily threatening bellhop, the sadistic cop on the beat, not to mention the dawning mysteries of sex and some sudden deaths and dislocations among his friends. The wary reserve of Bradford's performance has a crystalline quality in which you can read in his response to his father's bluster and mother's passivity. You sense in him a future manliness that will avoid both modes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding The Cutes | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...protest, at the Federal Reserve Plaza, was part of a continuing nationwide movement to help 380 Koreans who live in Utoro, a five-acre community in Japan, keep their homes despite a developer's plans to evict them...

Author: By Nara K. Ahn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Students Protest Eviction of Koreans | 5/5/1993 | See Source »

...crisis threatened to undo everything Nancy, Teresa and Katherine had done to keep their families together. Their landlord had decided to sell the cluster of row houses they lived in, and any new owner was likely to evict them so that the properties could be renovated and rented at a higher rate. City law requires that tenants be granted a first shot at buying their apartments. But to Katherine the sum required -- $190,000 -- was daunting. "For people like us, there was no way we could come up with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Ashes | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...graduates, Kincade J. Dunn '89 and Doina I. Contescu '89, charge that the doctor's move to evict them is illegal since he is doing so on grounds of intended personal occupancy...

Author: By Daria E. Lidsky, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Alumnae Charge Eviction Unlawful | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...August 1991. As General Secretary of the party for its last six years, Gorbachev was naturally called to testify. He refused, saying he would not participate in a "political" trial, "even if I am brought to the court in handcuffs." In < retaliation, the Russian authorities have threatened to evict him from his institute and yanked his passport. Only when the Germans protested his treatment was he permitted to go to the Brandt funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Russia v. Gorbachev | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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