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...Goldberg), the film's protagonist, as told by her in a diary addressed to God. In the opening scenes, we see her giving birth to a child by her father and being married off to a man she doesn't know. This is pretty horrible stuff, especially for a sixteen-year-old, but some of the disgust we are meant to feel is lost among the wash of color and high quality production. Unable to communicate subtly the extent of the father's shortcomings, Spielberg is forced to rely on a line from the script in which father tells daughter...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income," said Dr. King. There is a lot of killing going on in the job market. Sixteen percent of Blacks don't have jobs. All dead. We are opposed to the use of quotas says Reagan. Words of Dr. King says Reagan. Half of Black families live in poverty. It is murder, says Dr. King. Capital punishment. Murder by supply-side. Reagan lengthening the lines of the living dead, the unemployed, with Black zombies. In our society it is murder...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...Thursday--Sixteen hundred freshmen find out they've all been sent to their third choice houses: 847 are assigned to Mather, 762 to Cabot House. A slightly confused Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 is quoted as asking, "What was it? Our food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Banner Year | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

...Sixteen teenagers in a circle run in place, snap their fingers, clap their hands under their legs as they lift them. Much giggling and groaning. Jokes about Jane Fonda. Stretch exercises on the cafeteria floor of P.S. 1. Julie, the staff leader, wears a sweatshirt reading NAGS HEAD, NORTH CAROLINA. Calls out directions: "Let's do knots." Kids divide into two huddles, all crossing arms, grasping one another. Entangled, they must work their way out by twisting until their knot unravels. "Anita's stuck again." Laughter. Julie: "Double duck-ducks, please." Kids on haunches in one large circle again. Hector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...Everyone was out searching. The common anxiety over Caucasian attendance was as plain as the pale nose on every twelfth man's face. And it was expressed in the extreme whenever a team like the Atlanta Hawks traded Paul Silas, a great forward, for Gary Gregor, a white one. Sixteen years later, the mind still reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority of them. There are even a few fringe black players today. Rather, let's say there are black players sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Impressions in Black and White | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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