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...insane would keep quiet," he sighs, repeatedly overhearing the muffled curses that stream through Marta's door. Doors and locks soon emerge as a motif--Mauro is endlessly closing doors, turning the key in the four locks of his front door, inspecting the locks on telephones. The physical boundaries manifest his compulsion to separate all that is sane from the insane, the acceptable from the shocking, and the inside from the outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbols | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

...results are beginning to show: The newly created epidemic of smoking-related diseases in Third World countries already rivals even infections diseases and malnutrition--historically the Third World's greatest medical problems--in many areas. And since the result of smoking often take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves, the worst effects still have not appeared. As one expert succinctly put it, "Millions more lives will soon be going up in smoke...

Author: By Allen S. Winer, | Title: Clearing Away the Smoke | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

Among crimes against the person, rape is a close second to murder, for it violates the body and desecrates the spirit at the same time. Despite its manifest ugliness, it makes a powerful subject for a play, since any bruising or brutal confrontation between two or more human beings is the atavistic fuel of drama. Indeed, plays with rape as a central motif recur in theatrical literature. Perhaps the most notable is Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, in which the heroine-victim, Lavinia, has her tongue cut out and her hands cut off. She secures her revenge when she reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hand Grenade | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...When released into the cultural ear, these stimuli initiate festive tendencies which manifest themselves in actions such as giggling, excessive drinking, and sleeping (which comes about because of the dormative principle). Occasionally these stimuli cause a Scrooge-like behavior which reflects an excessive depressed state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holidays 1010a. 'The Meaning of Christmas' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...UConn committee also stated that it wants to make clear its sensitivity to the issues involved in the case and its strong opposition to sexual harassment or racism in what ever forms they may manifest themselves...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: UConn to Permit Walcott To Keep Lecturing Honor | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

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