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Healy said he was "confident" that "we can balance the books next year" by transferring money from one city account to another. "I'm sure the rent control administration can survive through till the end of the year," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Despite Losses, Rent Board To Stay Open | 1/20/1982 | See Source »

...York's playoff hopes, for both teams, have long since been dashed, but the glow remains. For once the Big Apple doesn't have to say, "Wait till next year." It can point...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: New York's Christmas Present | 1/20/1982 | See Source »

...complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant. Waters does not hate his men. He simply, heartrendingly, knows that a black may snap to, and yet never measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Color Line | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...ready. We will not stop our struggle. We are not fascists. Our power is our arms. Kissinger caused this trouble. We are not Communists. Begin is a Nazi. We never intend to kill children. Till the last child we will struggle to regain our homeland." The colonel looks up. "Ah, Samer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: A Legacy of Dreams and Guns | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Fans' hopes dramatically elevate but soon unavoidably deflate. Till the past couple of seasons, the Lions and the Tigers have been as pitiful as the Pistons and Wings...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Lowdown on Motown | 1/7/1982 | See Source »

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