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Specifically, the rally--sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel--protests the five-year imprisonment of Soviet scientist Anatoly Shcharansky. Shcharansky today enters the 30th consecutive day of a hunger strike he started to protest his treatment at the hands of Soviet officials. No Western analyst knows precisely how many other prisoners of conscience are kept in the U.S.S.R. today, but the facts of Shcharansky's case and others that have come to light offer a dismaying picture of Soviet ruthlessness towards discontented citizens...
...dictate stern lessons and harsh measures. The aged are no longer left to die, but there are no discounts for senior citizens. Orphans go to the bottom of the social ladder, and the A.S.P.C.A. would not be pleased to learn that some polar dog-owners toughen their animals with hunger and the club...
...came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the change not from opportunism-15 or 20 years ago, practically no collectors or museums were exempt from the tyranny of abstract art-but out of a sense of lost engagement with the physical world and a hunger to recomplicate the game. Yet the past leaves its genetic code in the present work. And of no American realist painter is this truer than Neil Welliver...
...history of the pro-ERA movement is replete with excesses that demonstrate contempt for the democratic process. Consider a precedent-setting time extension for ratification, boycotts, hunger strikes, bags of animal blood, to name a few. And now we hear of raising millions to "get strong and get even." This approach resembles government by extortion. The ERA supporters appear more dangerous to the nation than the presumed inequality between the sexes...
...great, but it is not unlimited. The case of film actors .is different. They remain the royalty of American celebrities, and something more. The movie star, it is clear without even a glance at the White House, has long since displaced the authentic hero in popular mythology. That hunger for knowledge of the real lives of such players is only a projection of the popular craving for movies themselves-a hunger not for true reality but only for more vicarious drama. -By Frank Trippett