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Though Brooks insists that such people are the new wave, he presents a grim picture of a static middle class trapped in social pincers. Too insecure for parody, they attempt straightforward competitive display. Warns the author: "It may drive the not-quite-rich to bankruptcy, divorce, social disgrace, and misery. It may keep the poor in poverty despite rising wages and benefits. We deal with desperate people engaged in desperate actions...
...John McEnroe will probably have retired and opened his tennis academics all over Queens. Collins, on the other hand, could chatter on indefinitely. The outlook for televised tennis is grim. Drastic action is imperative. Bud Collins must be silenced...
With such huge profits at stake, the Colombian connection works with savage efficiency. Once landed in the U.S., the drug is distributed largely by grim professionals, many of them expatriated Cubans. The Colombians and Cubans are known as the "cocaine cowboys" for their willingness to kill in order to protect their racket. According to the DEA there were 135 confirmed drug-related murders in Florida's Dade County last year. Most were connected with the cocaine trade, say the authorities...
...personal ordeal. Never charged with a crime, he disappeared into the secret cellars and torture chambers of the military, like an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 other Argentine men, women and children. Timerman's critics, however, have questioned some of the conclusions he has drawn from that grim experience. Close observers of Argentine politics agree that anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in Argentine history and culture. But they doubt that the ideology of the junta is profoundly antiSemitic. They also question Timerman's theory that Argentine Jews are involved in a conspiracy of silence about their present...
...protest referendum enacted last November, the city must cut its property taxes by 15% a year until the rate is a small fraction of its present total. That means laying off 2,000 city employees by next month, 4,000 the following fiscal year. White knows the situation is grim enough to endanger him in politics. Says the former dark-horse presidential possibility, now a would-be survivor...