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...rape problem not as one feminist cause among many, but as a metaphor for all suffering at the hands of men. Some women wear CASTRATE RAPISTS buttons. In Florida this year, feminists tracked and beat up a rape suspect who allegedly preyed on lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing of a jailer who she says attacked her sexually. When Inez Garcia, a Chicane woman in Soledad, Calif...
...scarcely surprising that in Rio Maior an artisan insisted that 'It's better to be a homosexual than a Communist.' " Until recently, the north regarded the military as heroes for triggering last year's revolution. Now an increasing number of the area's inhabitants mutter bitterly, as did a mechanic in Benedita, that "the M.F.A. gives every thing to the Communists." The military leaders in Lisbon cannot long ignore such disillusionment. It was, after all, the north's dissatisfaction with the Portuguese Republic that led to the 1926 "March on Lisbon," resulting in Antonio...
...risen to 11 million. Not since the Second World War had U.S. ballet known so bright a moment of glory. At that time Dance Critic Edwin Denby attributed the public's eagerness for dance to ballet's "civilized and peaceful excitement." Psychologists now mutter about correlations between dance movement and the human pulse. Whatever the explanation, Americans apparently cannot get enough of dance...
Having been abroad in space for 20 years, the explorers aboard the ship Dark Star are off their respective nuts. They mutter to one another, yell at the talking computer, spend hours-even days-gazing out of the ship's bubble-top lookout post, swacked on the enormousness of the universe...
...past. Now some of these idealistic employees are disillusioned. At the same time, CIA agents in Western Europe are worried that they can no longer count on headquarters to protect them. As a result, they are reluctant to mount any risky or out-of-the-ordinary operations and mutter darkly that the CIA debate only encourages the Soviet Union's KGB to step up efforts to penetrate Western defenses...