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...have followed Gary Hart into his bedroom, and today we will follow him into his political grave...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Iowa Sends A At Hart | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...portrayed it in this way. When the U.S. Marine Corps occupied Haiti, everyone above the rank of sergeant got a book contract, and those books got names like Cannibal Cousins, Voodoo Fire in Haiti, Puritan In Voodoo Land. And they were full of zombies crawling out of the grave attacking people, and voodoo dolls and pins that don't even exist. This led to Hollywood movies like I Walked with A Zombie and Zombies on Broadway. I think what [Serpent] attempts to do is give a positive portrayal of a culture at the thrust of change. The whole point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tomb With a View | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...enough to come into a great situation here in 1981. I think any other coach would have won here also." Since starting out 0-5 that season, the Redskins have won 84 of 112 games and reached three Super Bowls. All this week in San Diego, Gibbs is in grave danger of being declared a genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangle of Broncos and Redskins | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...ravaging may be the worst sacrilege ever committed against an Indian site in the U.S. "It was total devastation," says Indian Activist Dennis Banks. "There were bones strewn all over the place." If convicted, the grave robbers face maximum penalties of just $500 and a one-year jail term for "desecration of a sacred object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Assault on Indian Graves | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan In the Land of Mickey-San | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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