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Baldwin was able to take the strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Tiger and the Pussycat | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

MacDonalds' developers redesigned the Porter Square store after the board criticized their initial model for the storefront, said George. As it stands now, the store epitomizes MacDonalds "new look"--replete with popular wall hangings and a food bar where people cating alone can sit and, most importantly, without protruding golden arches...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: You Can't Have It Your Way in Harvard Square; Local Laws Restrict Fast Food Establishments | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...public money would be spent on the convention costs would be met through private sources, meaning wealthy Texas REpublicans, oil companies, a local newspaper, and others. Throughout the downtown area, a logo welcoming the Republicans to Dallas (an elephant inside a large "D" for Dallas) was displayed on all storefront windows and flags with the logo flapped next to American flags from streetlight. Cab drivers were brought together at a big meeting and told that if they presented Dallas in a good light to their fares, they and Dallas would get more business in the future...

Author: By Mark E. Fineberg, | Title: Unconventional Warfare | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

...decent drycleaner?" you muse, wishfully eyeing the vacant storefront. A deli? Please, let it be a deli...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: I Scream | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...realm of East-West relations. In the eyes of some resident U.S. citizens, that criticism has undertones of a more generalized anti-Americanism. On the whole, protest has so far been peaceful: demonstrations in front of the American consulate in Frankfurt, or the display in a Lübeck storefront of quotes designed to portray the U.S. as a warmonger. (Example: "We don't want war, but. . ." attributed to former NATO Commander and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.) Occasionally the mood has turned ugly. When U.S. Vice President George Bush visited the city of Krefeld last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: We Want to Liberate Ourselves | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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