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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood at the meeting was more upbeat than usual; lawyers for the group had just filed suit in Federal District Court to block the plant. Helping the council in its fight is Ralph Nader, a longtime nemesis of GM, who was invited into the fray by area residents last year. Thus, by all appearances, the battle is a classic confrontation: a heartless corporation vs. a handful of citizens trying to preserve a way of life-which for many of them dates back to the turn of the century, when their immigrant ancestors arrived from Poland to make a new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of Poletown | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...AMERICAN POP, Ralph Bakshi tries to do for pop music what Walt Disney did for classical in Fantasia, expanding the melodies into coherent, complex visual experiences. Unfortunately, while Bakshi's animation technique often stupefies, his jumbled, negative vision drags his effort down...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

When lies come true, there are not too many places where one can get a grip on life. The idea of time in black writing, for example, of time as an index of progress, or as a context of history, has either no meaning or a dangerous one (Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, struggles to escape from time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great Black and White Secret | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...Ralph Sampson, Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...Ralph Sampson, Virginia

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

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