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...across the square. As the din crescendoed, railway workers forming a canyon through the crowd swung their matracas (rattles) wildly. With hand stretched high in salute, a robust man in a white guayabera (tropical shirt) jogged up to the speaker's platform. The crowd broke into a roar: " Viva Lopez Portillo...
Five hours later, we reached Dili. Crowds of dark-skinned Timorese lined the dusty streets between Dili's pink-and-white stuccoed houses, some of which had been hastily painted over to erase Fretilin slogans. Gongs and cymbals clanged, and drums sounded amidst cries of "Merdekaf (Freedom) and " Viva Presidente Suhartor No Indonesian armed forces were in sight, only a handful of local militiamen in ragtag colonial uniforms and wide-brimmed hats, carrying a variety of antediluvian weapons. Finally, we reached a grubby, squat sports hall adorned with a sign saying "We wish you a happy conference...
MANY women spend a lot of time, money and often desperate effort trying to make their bodies desirable. They are primed to do so by the cosmetics and clothing industry and their advertising, by fashion magazines or even blatantly exploitive pulp like Viva and Playboy. The result of this obsession with every wrinkle, fold of flesh and smell seems to be low body-esteem, increased insecurity, regardless of how attractive they actually are. Chesler and Goodman cite a 1973 study in which female and male college students were asked to "write down the amount of money you would...
Trudeau's stay in Cuba was busy and carefully organized. More than 100,000 people, cheering, "Viva Cuba-Canada!" lined his eight-mile route from José Martí Airport to downtown Havana. With Castro as a helpful guide, Trudeau visited a housing project, a cattle-breeding farm, schools and factories; his host even took the Prime Minister, a devotee of water sports, on a snorkeling expedition near the Bay of Pigs. There was also time for six hours of congenial discussion on such issues as the expansion of trade...
...America, they work as much as possible. We too must work hard to build Angola." At other times he had the crowd laughing at his jokes about, for example, the problems of being married and fighting a war at the same time. The crowd broke into chants and cheers: "Viva Savimbi! Viva UNITA! Down with Neto! Down with the Russians! Down with the Cubans...