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...mosques, but those supplies are invariably meager: they include few basic protein items, no more than ten eggs per person each month, and only 3 lbs. of meat each fortnight for a family of five. Thus, people are left with no alternative but the black market, where a pound of mutton sells for $15 and a pound of premium imported tea for more than $150. Sometimes 150 people will line up just to buy oranges. For the average factory worker, who takes home $450 a month, luxuries are even more unthinkable: a pair of jeans can fetch as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fever Bordering on Hysteria | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Other sources of old clothing at possibly less-than-vintage prices are the Harvard Square Bazaar. Saturdays at the corner of Church St. and Mass. Ave. and Dollar-a-Pound Clothing, open Saturdays till 1 p.m. "Antique" clothing from Japan is available at Turkoman (12 Arrow...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: When 'Old' Becomes 'New' | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

Most of the rooms in the museum smell of moth balls, alcohol and dust. By simply unlocking a cabinet, and pulling out one of the drawers, students can confront face to face a giant harpy eagle which eats 30 pound mammals...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: MCZ Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...PARADE, a ton of beauty. I am fat and I am proud of it," crows Francine, the 350-pound Roman goddess of plump pulchritude in Alber Innaurato's Passione. Sex and food figure in prominently with the play's comic themes, as they did in Innaurato's highly successful Broadway production Gemini. But where the tasty humor and the social statement complemented each other will in Gemini in passione they form a somewhat less savory mixture. The bittersweet flavor Innaurato aims for is drowned in cloying source of sugary high-energy fun and the salty tears of a misplaced tugging...

Author: By Stuart A. Angang, | Title: Hold the Commentary | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy' - and in the end, for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Ordeal | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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