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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China is trying to appear "more like a legalistic modern state, to seem like a democracy without taking the risks," he said...

Author: By Nellie Henderson, | Title: Chinese Vote Engineered, Experts Say | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...Institutions are among the greatest destabilizing factors for our neighborhoods--they are like monsters eating up our city," councilor Mary Ellen Preusser told the council at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institutional Expansion Law to Limit Density, Use | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

Even the Herald has felt the effects of rising prices, though. "It's gotten like oil, you never know what the next bill will say," Baumgardener moaned...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paper Drought Plagues Boston Papers; No Space for Golden Anniversaries | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

Until the shortage ends, newspapers will have to continue scrambling to find newsprint. Meanwhile the dearth of newsprint is being reflected in the quality of the paper that is delivered, Baumgardener said. "I've never seen paper like this--linted and yellowed. It's like printing on Charmin," he added, "but we're not sending any back--it's definitely a seller's market...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paper Drought Plagues Boston Papers; No Space for Golden Anniversaries | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...politeness is not the only reason the film The Europeans lacks an analytic persona. The director, James Ivory, as well as both Wentworth and James himself are, as Wentworth states in the novel, aware that "Forming an opinion--say on a person's conduct--was a good deal like fumbling in a lock with a key chosen at hazard." As analyzing human nature can be slightly slow, clumsy and difficult on paper, so much harder is it to render it on film ready made for passive viewing in a theater. Without an insightful narrator or character who is willing...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: The Missing James | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

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