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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were childhood buddies. They both like violence. They both like the same woman (Maria Conchita Alonso), who lives with Benteen at the opening of the film but used to live with Bailey. They both like mistreating the same woman. At the end of the film, the two spiritual compadres fight a duel. Benteen makes Alonso count off. Bailey rips open her skirt and says, "Come on, show us some tit and give us some motivation...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Macho Cheese Dip | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...march felt about that. I wondered, also, how they felt about the polite request that they walk at the end of the procession, so that those women who felt the need to be separate could be. One cheer went, "Gay, straight; Black, white. Same struggle, same fight!" Looking around me, I could see very few Black marchers. Unity seemed artifically imposed...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Signs in the Dark | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Suite Dreams centers around the lives of two of these characters, one divorced and the other happily married until he checks into the hotel. Hannah Warren (Laurel Pescosolido) is a 30-ish journalist from New York who is in the midst of a fight with her ex-husband Billy (Brian McCabe), a hot-shot screenwriter. They each want custody of their 17-year-old daughter Jenny (Jennifer Harris), but she has other ideas about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Suite Dreams | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Huntington received the necessary number of mailed ballots to be considered for election at the Academy's annual meeting, held yesterday in Washington. But at the meeting a challenge to his nomination was raised, and his election was blocked after a floor fight before 530 NAS members that one Academy member said went to the "bitter...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...Gulf Coast of Texas was never a hotbed of anarchist agitation. But that was before voters in the tiny resort town of Crystal Beach (est. pop. 1,200) decided that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That Isn't: A Texas town dissolves | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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