Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...
Sound trucks blaring political slogans crept through packed city streets on Okinawa. Candidates wearing white sashes emblazoned with their names pressed the flesh of voters at subway stations in Hokkaido. Campaign workers garbed in koala bear costumes roamed a shopping center in Tokyo. Across Japan last week hundreds of politicians scrambled to win voters before the July 6 election. At issue in the balloting will be control of both chambers of the Japanese Diet. Also at stake will be the political future of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and his controversial drive to create a new era for postwar Japan...
...specialty bookstores might be the place. Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) is a poet hang-out with its selection of almost 10,000 poetry books and if they don't have the collection you're looking for, they'll order it. If you prefer your poetry in the flesh, contemporary poets come here to autograph books and be seen. If you prefer your reading to be in another language, Schoenhof's Foreign Books (76A Mt. Auburn St.) may very well have it, and will also send away for any title you request...
...where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly, they even outfit the body as if they exercised it. Togged out in sneaks and sweats, they proclaim their affiliation, in spirit if not in the flesh, with the fitness generation. The prototype runners below offer a look at the characteristics and habits of that new U.S. animal, Homo exercens americanus...
...appear on a disorderly conduct charge brought last year, when she purportedly disrupted a lecture by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland. To protest the cleric's alleged support of the International Monetary Fund, a perennial LaRouche target, Hart handed Weakland a piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning for patriots" in that country's upcoming parliamentary elections. Hart garnered attention earlier this spring by leading an anti-drug parade through Chicago's Loop. She rode the streets...