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Glittering islands in the sun. Long stretches of sandy, palm-shaded beaches. Azure waters flecked with colorful sails. These are the popular, still largely correct, tourist-poster views of that playground of the New World: the Caribbean. Sadly, in recent years less enticing images have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...
...themes of privation and sardonic defiance are conveyed at first glance. The set, designed by Playwright Byrne, is the slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...Someone didn't like the wording," Schatz said a policeman told him. In addition, the name of the student group was not written on the poster as required throughout the University...
...sermon to 500,000 in Managua's vast Plaza 19 de Julio, the Pope left little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution...
...trivial, examples of the violence that they thoughtlessly mock. But the fact that they happened in the first place underscores the lack of awareness in our community of the magnitude of these oppressive forms of violence. And it points to the importance of paying attention to a third poster which appeared at the same time as the other two. It, too talks about violence, but not in so glambrous or catchy a fashion. It calls for women and men to join in a march protesting violence against women, a rally to Take Back the Night, last night...