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...politics of some other South Africans werejust too vehement. "Some people had rather strongopinions, which is good for a discussion but notfor a video," he said...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Mayoral Staffer Galvam Discusses Birth of South African Democracy | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...diligent, he figured out all his poses and provocations in advance. Politically, too, he wanted to be shocking; later Dali would turn into an archconservative, the living national treasure of Franco's long regime, but in the 1920s -- the years of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship -- he was a vehement parlor red. He even did jail time, briefly, when he was arrested as a reprisal against his father's left-wing political activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...battle cry of "we men are oppressed echoes the louder, more vehement shriek of "we conservatives are persecuted at this liberal hell-hole." True, Harvard got a fairly mild dose of the dread Political Correctness; Harvard's administrators are, thankfully, too smart to go around censoring people still, one faction of conservative students managed to paint itself as battered, beaten-down, eternally voiceless. This powerless bunch later went on to found 57 new conservative organizations and take over the Republican Club...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Answers We've Been Waiting For | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...most vehement attackers deny that the "Take Back the Night" rally is a political event." But what is "empowerment," but a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration of "liberated mothers" and their bastard children? Even taken at its simplest meaning--that of helping women to feel more secure about themselves--"empowerment" has nothing to do with actually preventing women from being beaten or raped...

Author: By G. BRENT Mcguire, | Title: Confessions of an Iconoclast | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

While HRE is in such a vehement spring-cleaning mode, we at dartboard would like to offer a few more suggestions of the types of items which HRE Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

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