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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hint of a pot belly, he lilts into a delicate Jamaican accent when he stops to talk, especially when favored (West Indian) customers come in. He came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I used to go to work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Capitalism, at Work | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

Rogowitz and Cohen said they feared the preliminary hearing on the case might not come until January. "If that is true, it really makes me wonder about the Rent Board's commitment to enforcing this law," City Councilor-elect David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Sumner Rd. Tenants to File Complaint | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

Some argue that by capitulating to the Iranian students we will dishonor ourselves and invite any terrorist to take advantage of us. If the demands were unjust and self-serving this would be true. They are not. Is it capitulation to admit we were wrong? Is it dishonorable to accede to a righteous demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Americanism? | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Piggy has undergone drastic transformations. The victim of society's malevolence is now a deformed orphan, charred in the London blitz, and tortured in true Dickensian from by a perverted teacher in the Foundlings School who enjoy's fondling. The dust jacket labels it a brilliant exploration of weirdness...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...where fantasy has been exhausted, there is still real life to some toys and games. Popular music, for instance. There is the Bee Gees rhythm machine, not an instrument really, but instead a true rhythm machine. There are three rhythms a child can select.--latin, pop and disco. Perhaps it is appropriate that the Bee Gees have lent their names to this product...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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