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...resided continuously" in this country for five years would be classified as permanent residents. This excludes individuals who spend more than 30 days outside the country--a likely situation for an undocumented worker with a family back home in Mexico. The bill's amnesty provision serves merely as a rotten carrot--one which probably won't be eaten...
...George V. Higgins in his "Literary Life" column in The Boston Globe was one of the few people who not only prasied the new look, but admired the courage it took to make the change Most other commentators pelted Lapham and his brainchild with the verbal equivalent of rotten fruit. The Crimson editor who suggested this story fully expected that I would "trash" the new magazine, and after reading Lapham's bombastic manifestoes, I was fully prepared...
...answers lie partly in the master's mistreatment of his apprentices, who were made to work long hours and fed on rotten scraps that the pet cat refused to eat. They also lie partly in the popular tradition of torturing felines, which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...
...Chinese are accustomed to periodic drives to curb foreign influences. The latest effort was aimed at stemming the perceived dangers of Western mores at a time of increased contacts between Chinese citizens and Westerners. Officials raged against the "rotten" ideology, which "crumbles our faith [and] messes our thinking." Zealous party censors combed school and university libraries for polluting material. In parts of China, authorities ordered women to forgo cosmetics or to cut their hair short. One young worker was castigated for owning an art book that included a print of Botticelli's Birth of Venus...
...inspiration: reggae, soul, country and western, mainstream rock. The results are whimsical, joyous and occasionally mysterious detonations of apparently casual inspiration. Very cool, very catchy and, to borrow a favorite word of the lead singer's, never naf. "Naf' stands for out of it, rotten, done over and overdone-and not, clearly, for Culture Club, which seems, at this somewhat disjointed juncture on the hit parade, to define the very core of contemporary...