TRYING TIMES FOR CHIRAC The Future of Cohabitation in France BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris Materially and culturally, France is doing well. Only a decade after rapacious oil moguls plunged...
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THE CHALLENGE IN THE PHILIPPINES-1 Rallying the Body Politic By Donald Kirk It is a commentary on the political process here that most Filipino leaders would rather orate in the Senate...
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THE CHALLENGE IN THE PHILIPPINES-2 Making the Constitution Work BY RICHARD J. KESSLER Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino, who on February -25 celebrated the first anniversary of her...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Glasnost and the Condom The hot words this season, as registered by their appearances in newspaper headlines and their mispronunciations by television...
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A NEW AUSTERITY Cuba Chases the Dollar BY FORREST D. COLBURN Havana The peso notes here portray different bearded guerrilla leaders of the Revolution—Camilo Cienfuegos, Ernesto "Che"...
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Writers & Writing A PRISONER OF ALLEN GINSBERG BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL In 1956, a young college drop-out was catapulted into notoriety when a lengthy poem of his, printed in England for the San...
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Recalling a Battle Against Tyranny Homage to the Spanish Exiles: Voices from the Spanish Civil War By Nancy Macdonald Human Sciences Press. 358pp. $19.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock The...
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Tales of Gutsy Women Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories By Margaret Atwood Houghton Mifflin. 281pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Alice Neufeld Associate professor of humanities, Suffolk Community...
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On Stage SHADES OF ABSURDITY BY LEO SAUVAGE JANUSZ Glowacki is not a Polish refugee, but his plays and books—including one about the Solidarity movement—have long been the target of...
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On Screen BLOOD AND GUTS BY JAMES GARDNER It is no accident that Platoon and Death Before Dishonor have made their appearance at this stage in our history. Both display a willingness to...
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