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...PROCLAIMED its self-destruction on March 6, 1970, when a luxurious Greenwich Village townhouse exploded in a serious swirl of stone, glass, and human bodies. Left dead and mutilated were three young bomb-makers, one of whom had mistakenly ignited a cache of 100 sticks of dynamite intended for some unsuspecting organ of the Establishment. The preeminent leftist campus group of the Sixties. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) had first emerged 10 years earlier, boasting a provocative dissent from the ideals of liberal America. But by the time the organization had deteriorated into the underground Weatherman network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roots of Rage | 12/3/1982 | See Source »

Even as the junta issued its proposals, an international diplomatic storm continued to swirl over Argentina as a result of the discovery of some 1,500 unidentified bodies in unmarked burial sites across the country. The furor was ignited after an Argentine couple discovered the body of their son, Miguel Angel Sosa, in one of the cemetery plots. Subsequent investigations revealed that the corpses were stacked as many as six deep in unmarked graves, and that numerous victims had been killed with a single bullet in the head. Most of the bodies are still unidentified, but there is little doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Taboo Topics | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...showed the puffiness of weight too easily gained, and whose statements in the press were likely to be suppressed clucks about her daughters' unsuitable consorts. To her contemporaries, perhaps simply because she stopped making films at 26, Grace Kelly remained vividly what she had been, a lovely blond swirl of shadow and substance, a white-gloved good girl who managed to be disturbing and mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess From Hollywood | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...This hasn't happened to me" and harsh daydreams of revenge against the man who gave her the disease. She stopped wearing makeup, ironing her clothes and shaving her legs. "I felt as though someone had pulled the plug," she says, "and let all my sexuality and self-confidence swirl down the drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...addition to producing, directing and arranging. Yazbeck plays electric piano and takes charge of an on-stage band perched precariously above the other performers on a scaffolding backdrop. Like the set, the music is spare and appropriate, never overpowering the swirl of denim, bandanas and flesh down in front...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Hair For Its Own Sake | 7/20/1982 | See Source »

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