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Juan's experience in the United States (apparently Arenas had similar feelings upon escaping his native Cuba on the Mariel boat lift in 1980) has given him nothing to which his soul can cling. Everything is on the surface and artificial, it's all candy and fake, pearly-white smiles. This kind of empty sensation is similar to the feeling sparked effectively in the reader by Arenas' sparse, transitionless writing...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: This Doorman Doesn't Hold Doors | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...conversion] works, it's great," Glueck said. "If not, I take the heat. It was a big emotional lift...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rams Shock Gridders, 14-7 | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

...week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases. Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Another Day, Another Truce | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...date for the actual lifting of these sanctions. ANC officials said sanctions would be most effective if the U.S. follows ANC directives on when to lift restrictions...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: ANC Deputy President Arrives in Boston | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...science writer, I have to commend the coalition for this attempt to introduce physics into the national discourse, which surely needs an intellectual lift, but there are problems. Big cars are safer only for the people who happen to be riding in them at the time, much the way that Uzis are safer only for the people holding them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration doesn't count the number of lungs damaged by ozone from automobile exhaust. The birds and seals suffering and dying along whatever pristine coast an oil tanker chooses to run aground on don't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caution: We Brake for Newton | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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