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Instead, many are buying guns, and an abortive "hard hat" march through the West End was organized. Thus far outright black-white confrontation has been avoided...
Tourist brochures fancifully refer to it as the "eighth continent," a palm-fringed paradise of emerald bays, gleaming beaches and sybaritic hotels. Just beyond the thin strips of sand, however, lies a very different West Indian world, one of discontent and outright anger...
Last Saturday night's broken windows have mostly been replaced, but the merchants who were hit, and many who weren't, have decided that the time has come to do something to protect themselves from rioters and crazy youths in the Square, "outright crooks hooking onto a movement," in the words of Jim Jacobs, owner of J. August, the first store hit last Saturday night...
...this belief in the efficacy of a strip of copper? No users can really explain their faith, though they all talk vaguely about body electricity, excess acids and even outright magic. But the most common (and completely unfounded) belief-held since the time of the ancient Romans-is that arthritis sufferers lack sufficient copper in their systems; thus users of the bracelets are somehow supposed to compensate for the deficiency. Golfer Bert Yancey credits his copper bracelet with easing an aching elbow in time for him to win the $25,000 Bing Crosby Open at Pebble Beach last January. Hollywood...
...Outright acceptance of the possibility that she is really in touch with Liszt and friends is, naturally, rare. But at press conferences and confrontations, Rosemary regularly disarms reporters and cynics with her modesty ("I only take what comes") and her homely use of detail. "We would call Debussy a hippie today," she adds. "He tells me he does much more painting than music." Liszt, she says, often accompanies her on shopping trips and once checked up on the price of bananas; Chopin has become a TV addict, though he disapproves of much that appears on the BBC. "When Schubert first...