Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Abe Stolar left with his parents for the Soviet Union in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I feel 60 years younger...
...first one -- the seminal one -- happened when Roberts was eight, and he collided with a new piano in his home in Jacksonville. He had been blind for four years, and was not so much startled as seduced. "I sat right down," Marcus says, in his soft but insistent voice. "I thought, 'This, apparently, is for me. I could work on this...
Pierce's bitterness over his lot in life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
...weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre, many Chinese students say that they need to devote themselves to other types of protest. Rather than directly aiding the protesters back home and openly challenging the government, many of them say they now need to challenge the regime of Li Peng and Deng Xiaoping in an indirect way, by forcing the American government to put pressure on China...
Another major endeavor of Chinese students relates to the visa problems that many of them face. The overwhelming majority of the 40,000 Chinese students studying in the U.S. are here on so-called "J" visas, which require them to return home on completion of their degrees...