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With her large, dark eyes and thick, waist-length hair, the 18-year-old was a favorite among the truck drivers who called at the squalid brothel on Highway 45 in Ulundurpet, a small town in southern India. When she was placed in a ) reformatory for convicted prostitutes in June, five men offered to bail her out. Today she is emaciated, weighing only 62 lbs., her hair is falling out, and she is showing unmistakable signs of mental derangement. The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus. Doctors at the home want to delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Health Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...current Willard is the twelfth new building or major renovation on the site since 1816. Charles Dickens stayed in one of those early incarnations, then called Fuller's City Hotel. Viewing the squalid streets around him, he dismissed Washington as the "city of magnificent intentions." But with a lot of help from the Willard, it fulfilled its dreams. The lovely partnership is ready for renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Outsize Slippers for Mr. Lincoln | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...squirm while watching the play and feel that hot blush starting on your neck, but--like the rest of the audience--you'll probably laugh as heartily at the smut as you did in fourth grade. But underneath the laughter, Cloud 9 has a squalid streak and leaves you feeling as though you might want to wash your mouth, or more appropriately your ears, out with soap...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Get Off My Cloud | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...throng packed a soccer stadium in Alexandra, a squalid Black township wedged among the richest white suburbs of Johannesburg. In the crowd were Black activist Winnie Manela and diplomats from seven Western nations, including the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass Funeral Turns Into Anti-Apartheid Protest | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...resemble the plot of Flashdance, like most student employment it has its ups and downs. "It makes so much of a difference if there are friends who I can talk to on my break. Otherwise I stand there smoking my cigarette and feeling really sordid and squalid...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Harvard Student by Day, Go-Go Dancer by Night | 2/22/1986 | See Source »

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