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...womanhood which is Morrison's gift. She hardly looks or acts the way Black people expect her to, but she feels the force of their folklore and their spirit. An African woman she sees in a Paris supermarket, with "eyes so beautiful they burned the lashes around them," haunts Jadine for months when she spits at her with disdain. The spirits of the past strike hardest with the discovery of an untamed, uneducated filthy young man named Son who has been hiding in the Street's house for days. At first he is an ugly rastaman, a "nigger...
Although potential drilling sites have been leased in picturesque farm country and near the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail, a favorite haunt of backpackers, there have been few of the protests that normally accompany energy exploration. Most of the leases involve private landowners and farmers, and do not include government lands over which environmental groups can assert a public interest...
...contrast, love objects in Argentina run more toward postimpressionist paintings from pricey Buenos Aires galleries like Wildenstein, or jewelry selected by government officials for their wives from a famed jewelry shop like Ricciardi, a favorite haunt of the late Evita Peron. Those bills too, of course, are paid by the deal-hungry businessmen...
Kirkland called on AFL-CIO members to "launch a grass-roots campaign throughout the country to make our voice heard in the halls of Congress." Otherwise, he said. "The administration's program will produce human suffering in the short run and retard economic growth enough to haunt us for years to come...
Whether they could do that once the unifying emergency passed remained to be seen. The dangerous issues of Basque separatism, terrorism and police repression-all of which figured in the military contempt for democracy-continued to haunt the country. Still unanswered was the most critical question of all: Was the coup attempt a kind of last gasp of the old order-or the first threat of its possible renewal...