Word: reborning
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Life in the United States has not been easy, even for a man who was drafted into military service after the eighth grade, but Rodriguez says the freedom "is like being reborn. I can walk around or stand on the street for half an hour and no one will bother me. In Cuba, the police would...
...month ago in Detroit the allegedly reborn party of Abraham Lincoln and Jesse Helms gathered to crown its champion. Fanatically grateful for any attention, the Motown elders cleared out one end of their city a week before Ronnie's legions arrived. A sticky labor strike evaporated, the streets around Cobo Hall were cleaned, and everyone was so damned nice. New York is just too tired and too grumpy to make such an effort...
Desideria's natural mother was a prostitute who sold her to Viola, who fluctuates between being an overattentive parent and an insatiable bisexual. Left alone, Desideria fills her loneliness with autoeroticism and calories. Viola puts the girl on a diet and discovers a voluptuous beauty beneath the flab. Reborn, Desideria hears a voice that commands her to attack her mother's values and property and save her virginity for a militant radical. At first the rebellion is symbolic, a form of childish Dada ("Practically the whole of our life is a tissue of unreasoned respects, of unfounded taboos...
...canisters are reborn as land mines. But resourceful handicraft is limited by backwardness. In a rebel village one evening, during prayers, two dusty field radios were pulled from under a bed; the battery cavity of each was being used as a repository for prayer beads. Inadequate weaponry and supply does not seem to affect the fighting spirit. "It is all in a man's thinking," explains Guerrilla Leader Chandra Khan. "You look in that corner and see 'only three Kalashnikov rifles.' I see three Kalashnikovs and three dead Russians...
...Reborn in New Hampshire, he looks to more gains in the South...