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...Confi-Guide's red-baiting attack on me and my course on the Caribbean goes beyond all acceptable limits of journalistic behavior, including the most tongue-in-cheek forms of brat-journalism...
...expresses cheek more winsomely than the remarkable Emily Lloyd, 16, who plays Lynda, the teenage heroine of Writer-Director David Leland's Wish You Were Here! In the course of writing the film Personal Services -- a raffishly surreal account of Cynthia Payne's career as a divinely unhypocritical London madam that illuminated American screens early this year -- Leland learned enough about her early life to offer this prequel. And a marvelously uncluttered tale...
...Publishing a False and Misleading Romantic History. Last year I wrote a piece called Experimental Romance for the What Is to Be Done. This tongue-in-cheek essay investigated "Why I don't date Harvard women," sending up the old "There is no romance at Harvard" chestnut...
...Tukano leader, Benedito Machado, angered by the forces aligned against his people, says, "The church taught us to turn the other cheek, but it taught us nothing about the cunning, the subtleties and lies the white man uses." Nevertheless, the 200 Indian leaders who attended a three-day summit meeting last month in Sao Gabriel with mining, government, military and Salesian representatives proved to be highly articulate -- patently a result of their missionary training. In florid speeches, they demanded land rights so they can levy royalties on gold that is mined, as well as better communications, health care and education...
...intentions," says Charles Bumer, a longtime military-court civilian lawyer. Kunstler is less sanguine. He may seek to have Lonetree's case moved to federal courts. But Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey, another civilian veteran of the military courts, thinks that may be a mistake. Tongue just slightly in cheek, he maintains, "If I'm guilty, I want a civilian trial; if innocent, military justice is superior...