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The term "Yuppie" has caught on because it describes young, urban, white-collar workers on their way up the corporate ladder without mentioning money directly. Money is implied. Sure, a Yuppie couple may be strapped for cash like the rest of us, but it's not because their salaries are...
RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA (Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political parables.
With disarming intellectual and political innocence, Lasch writes on the teleogical assumption that the intellect is naturally suited for the ends to which modernist in tellectuals most often put it. He translates the misguided American trust in the innocence and perfectibility of nature into the goodness and universal applicability of...
These are buoyant times for most Americans. And that translates into the commanding 24-point lead that Ronald Reagan holds over Walter Mondale in the latest nationwide poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White.* Of the 1,000 voters who were questioned by telephone over three days last...
"I am able to fulfill my interests here better than elsewhere," says O Coilean, whose name translates in English as John Collins.