Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of Roxbury, but if they did they would find the Silver Slipper Restaurant, "Home of Limbo Patties, Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest--but harder still to avoid, since everyone in Dudley Station seems to know where it is. The place opens every day for breakfast at 5:30 a.m., stays filled with customers until after noon, and finally closes...
...fugitives from his government and secret police by the same friends in business and government who supported his regime with economic and military aid. They protect him from a trial not merely out of loyalty to him but to keep their own actions in Iran forever hidden from the light of day. It is for these corporate interests that innocent people are held captive in the American embassy...
...juxtaposed on another counter, just across, to remind you that you are old, or will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this sort, you study the booklet from cover to cover...
...system of Iran and the country's guarantees of personal and social liberties. His regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice, destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of the middle ages into the light of the modern era. Nearly every source of creative, artistic and intellectual endeavor in our culture was suppressed...
...have to re-examine this in the light of increased student interest in the last couple of years," Epps said...