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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood behind Father Mulcahy and concentrated on the way his pink skull showed through his white hair... I stood near my father's grave, my black heels cutting holes in the grass. I kissed and was kissed; I answered people's expressions of grief with coos and cluckings, animal noises, which seemed at the time the only appropriate response. They had buried my father; I would never see him again. That I continued to breathe air surprised me. Walking past the statues of St. Michael and St. Gabriel, the archangels, I felt light...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Twentieth Century Sin | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...kind it was of him, with his hand on my knee, stroking the silk of my stockings, and how charming the color of the hair on his hands, golden and shining, the color of beer. "I'm going to take you to see the sunset on the river," he was saying, with his tongue...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Twentieth Century Sin | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...child from his Syna-non-member wife, was jumped by two men outside his home on Sept. 21 and severely beaten. "It was the usual Synanon method of operation," says Jack Hurst, a friend and ex-president of Synanon who quit the group in 1976. "The short hair, the baseball bats, the doctored license plates." Ritter is currently in hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Snake in the Mailbox | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Patricia Lynch, a producer for NBC, filmed a report on Synanon activities that was aired last June. Later, she says, two men with close-cropped hair and carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Snake in the Mailbox | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Life in China begins before dawn. On city streets, which are the patios and front yards of the oppressively cramped worker, mothers braid daughters' lustrous black hair in time for school, sisters hang out the laundry on poles, grannies mold patties of coal dust and mud, fuel for the evening meal. Aunties hurry home with the rice ration in open bowls. Fathers split wood, small children chop vegetables. Good ole boys play Chinese chess or pai-fen, a complicated poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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