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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...
Sometimes, the class resembles nothing so much as a junior high locker room. Says a regular: "We're free to be adolescent and silly, like we were when we were 14, but without being mean." When Shaffer played Prince's recent hit Kiss, with the lyrics, "I'll be your fantasy and you'll be mine," she blurted out, "Not really. What if Prince was the last man on earth? Would you be celibate, or what?" The breathless women nodded in agreement...
That charge may be unfair, but it indicates the rising anger toward the Japanese. Until recently, environmentalists focused most of their attention on the U.S. and Western Europe, which are far and away the biggest polluters in the free world. But as Japan has developed into a leading economic power, its impact on the global environment has come under more intense scrutiny. While * Japan has begun to clean up domestic pollution problems, it has not shown the same regard for nature outside the home islands...
Between Madras and the shore temple town of Mahabalipuram, the Tamil farmers spread their harvest across the road and wait for the traffic. Cars, buses and trucks burst through the sheaves; the rubber meets the rice, and the grains are pinched free from their husks. The vehicles move on, and women, children and Indian crows drop down through the exhaust fumes to gather in their share...
...behind closed doors," he notes. "To get material, I've had to travel." What Naipaul conveyed in nonfiction such as An Area of Darkness and The Loss of El Dorado and in his novels Guerrillas and A Bend in the River changed Western perceptions of the underdeveloped world. Free of their colonial keepers, new nations had to confront their own hearts of darkness. In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress; in India he observed that poverty was more dehumanizing than any modern machine. Eight years before Salman Rushdie outraged the Imam, Naipaul had pinpointed the problem...