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...weeks, Rio de Janeiro had been gearing up for the event. The words diretas já (direct elections now) became inescapable, splashed across posters, walls, buttons, T shirts and bumper stickers. Climbers scaled one of the peaks that surround the city and mounted a 35-ft.-high cloth banner bearing the slogan. At Maracanã stadium, the huge electronic Scoreboard flashed the words repeatedly during soccer matches. The climax came last week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched...
Gandhi first moved forces in to surround the Golden Temple in early March, in an attempt to isolate Bhindranwale and stop Sikh provocations. It is unlikely, however, that Gandhi would decide to move them inside. By doing so, she would risk committing a sacrilege that all Sikhs, moderate and radical, would find intolerable. Since Sikhs make up 25% of the armed forces and hold key command positions, Gandhi does not wish to provoke them any more than necessary. Last weekend, in a bold bid for reconciliation, she established a committee to draft an amendment to the constitution that would define...
...when applied to men. Stereotypical, and thus insensitive, when applied to women. Serious. Term of praise. A serious person makes a serious commitment to a serious relationship. Share an experience. To communicate, as in "I had an experience I want to share with you." Space. Nebulous area believed to surround a person, a region of turbulence when violated, as in "He takes up too much of my space." Strong. Term of praise when applied to women. When applied to men, it implies tendency toward insensitivity, even machismo. Wholeness. Hoped-for consequence of commitment. Sometimes even includes dishwashing...
Question marks also surround Jackson's purported Hispanic support. Most of the prominent Hispanic politicians in the area support Mondale, Rep. Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.), for instance, endorsed Mondale last year, Hispanics, along with Jowish voten, are thought by campaign strategists on all sides to make up Mondale's most solid blocs of support...
...taken it even higher. He can sing low?down to a basso low C?but he prefers to sing as high as he does because pop tenors have more range to create style." The power of gossip is such that it has penetrated the iron gates that surround the Jackson never-never land out in Encino. It takes no effort of imagination to calculate what talk like that must do to a proud father and a mother who is a devout churchwoman. In addition to his door-to-door field service, which, according to his mother, "he does twice...