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...just have a higher hairline than you guys," he protested one day after one of us delivered a particularly vivid description of what we imagined he'd look like in a few years. "It's not receding, it's always been like this," he insisted...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: A Touch of Chrome | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Schwartz's story paints a vivid picture of the real-life meaning of concepts like tight housing markets or rent control...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Disaster In Morningside Heights | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...made any great impression in Harlem," but he has nothing to suggest beyond that failure. He weighs the consequences of the overt racism of the South against the patronizing paternalism of the North and is unable to come up with many answers. His youthful pieces provide a vivid and insightful description of what the problems of race really are, but they do not propose solutions...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: A Philosophy Without Antagonism | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...wonders how many of Baldwin's former neighbors in Harlem can afford the book's thirty-dollar pricetag. But the biographical importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy uneducated prose to vivid poetry, from confusion and despair to strength and spokesmanship, and from the resentful mind of a slave to the humanitarian outlook of a true leader. It is a rarer thing still when the public is allowed to witness the birth of such a great philosopher...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: A Philosophy Without Antagonism | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...dramatic details of the Achille Lauro affair emerged last week, providing answers to, and fresh questions about, what really happened during the six-day crisis. From the returning passengers and crew came a vivid account of the horror aboard the Italian cruise ship. Marilyn Klinghoffer, 59, returning home to New York City, recalled the anxious hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Piecing Together the Drama | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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