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...riverbed reefs ? labor so uselessly expended when concrete is available that it can only be economical if recognized as forced labor. Farther down the river, at Wanxian, a young woman stevedore, of the same age as the oscilloscope workers, bends and stoops; all her muscles quiver as she heaves and finally lifts two huge buckets of pig livers for the third-class passengers. She staggers, makes it, totters up the gangplank. She is followed by other young women, beasts of burden, staggering under the bales, the cartons, the loadings of the vessel. I am pleased to watch them revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...their fear of the stone that will lie on them, no I would find Nefertiri and I would fuck Her. The thought of my cock in Her, my agony in Her honey, my fatigue in Her wealth, my pride in Her royal privacy, my beating heart in Her sweet quiver, my peasant meet in the sauce of a Queen, my sword in Usermare's [the Pharsolt's] skin!--every high and low passion I ever felt came together, and my life was simple. I would fuck Her or die in the attempt...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Ancient Flatulence | 5/12/1983 | See Source »

...people," he declared. "Tell them to get lost." Despite the specter of substantial white crossovers to Epton, Washington remains the clear favorite. Wrote Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko after the upset: "Eeek, the next mayor of Chicago is going to be a black man. Let's all quiver and shake. Oh, come on. Let's all act like sensible, adult human beings."- By Susan Tifft. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chlcago

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Black Mayor for Chicago? | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

News of Baker's possible retirement sent a quiver through ambitious Republicans. Among those mentioned to succeed Baker as G.O.P. Senate leader in 1985: Dole, Lugar, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) and Senate Whip Ted Stevens (Alaska). In Tennessee the most likely contenders for Baker's Senate seat are Congressman Albert Gore Jr. and Governor Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Leader | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...Haunting of M is a Victorian ghost story. Even on a low budget, the movie successfully presents a lush and mysterious atmosphere. The cinematography by Gregory Nava imbues light with a sinister and unearthly aura. People quiver before the firelight and become disembodied; eerily-lit heads swathed in darkness. The carefully sculptured garden becomes a foreboding place, a jungle, at dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Being and Nothingness | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

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