New Nation, 12 April 1981

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    Masthead
    10 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 12, 1981 40 CENTS M.C.(P) No. 104/1/81
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      34 1 Second week to win a great holiday! Entry form on Page 25 AS a I i it 7 Speculators Jita to field reserves Back Pag* Dare to make a splash! Page 16 4 M
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      24 1 suffer setback to their hopes? PAGE 3 He sold the West on Chinese cooking Job survey for arts grads turns up surprises Page 4
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      41 1 NV mmi Are HK shows a bad influence? Page 10 3 a k* Ugly, sterile and so confusing Kent Ridge gets blasted page 24 r\ V v if fr < j. J /i ./i j. V\t I 4 f ■A- 0 HITACHI
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    A wife help out the firm? Not here!
    759 2  -  By Ivan Lim WOULD you, as a manager or supervisor, want your wife to be a part-time worker in your company to cope with a temporary labour shortage? A Singaporean is likely to say no, judging from the response of union and
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    Guild House to get theatre
    148 2 THE new Guild House to be built at Kent Ridge campus will have a theatrette cum multi-purpose hall. The Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan, disclosed this when he offered the NUS Society "full support" in their project to build better
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    Stop thinking we can't get rid of bad habits: Devan
    293 2 TRADE union leader and former schoolmaster Mr Devan Nair has called (or a national campaign of learning from the best traditions of Japan and other countries. The NTUC president said the government, em- ployers and unions should jointly promote this
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    Be the sun, not the biting wind, says Goshi
    391 2 THE father of the Japanese productivity movement, Mr Kohei Goshi, has received many accolades in his long career, including Emperor Hirohito's award of the First Order of the Sacred Treasure last year. In Singapore, he earned honourable mention as a wise
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    Lock icon Speculators' hopes suffer a setback?
    491 3 SMALLTIME speculators who hoped to make a quick killing in the recent public booking for shop units in Far East Plaza could suffer a setback. There have been repeated advertisments in The Straits Times in the past several days for the same properties in this
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      Lock icon Triumph and disaster
      78 3 AP THE stunning election of Bobby Sands, a jailed guerrilla nearing death on hunger strike in northern Ireland, to the British Parliament was hailed yesterday, in the British press, as a triumph for the Irish Republican Army and a disaster for the British government. Prime Minister Margaret
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      Lock icon Right to strike
      68 3 AP THE independent Polish union Solidarity has warned that "suspension of the right to strike will be interpreted by the community as an announcement of measures which can generate these strikes". The chief government planner, Mr Henryk Kisiel, meanwhile, has hinted that food prices might soon be
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      Lock icon Haig's suggestion
      45 3 AP US SECRETARY of State Alexander Haig has suggested that if Lebanese and Syrian officials are unable to halt the fighting between Christian militiamen and Syrian troops in Lebanon, a United Nations peacekeeping force should be brought in to do the job. AP
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    Prices for homes levelling off
    174 3 RESIDENTIAL property prices are levelling off now even as property men predict that supply will exceed demand by 1982. "The residential property market haa been doll for the past month or so," says an economist. He said speculators are watching the Government (or measures to
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      97 3 Mom says Plumrosc is' Danish! I don t know what that means... but I like it. w m .i So do my brothers. In fart, we like all the yummie Plumrose meals that mom cooks. The bacon. The sausages. And specially the ham. too. Cause she can just pick it
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    Lock icon Leader of Usno resigns
    95 4 Reuter THE leader of the opposition party beaten in last month's state elections in Sabah has tendered his resignation to its Supreme Council. Tan Sri Mohamed Said Keruak, 52, president of the United Saoah National Organisation (Usno), which lost eight of its 11 seats in the
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    Lock icon WHAT A LETDOWN!
    103 4 DISAPPOINTMENT is clearly reflected in the faces of American astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen (left, Young in the foreground) and bespectacled mission control director Christopher Kraft and flight director Gene Krantz (right) when Friday's launching of the space shuttle Columbia was poned.The launch was delayed because
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    Which arts grads do best?
    470 4 Job prospects survey turn up surprises WHICH Honours graduates in the Faculty of Arts/Social Sciences the largest of the university's seven faculties have the best career prospects today? A survey over the past three years of graduate employment by the Economic Research Centre of the
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      89 4 Two of the world s most alluring fragrances are signed Mdyneux-Fbris. Quartz Playful. Pulsatingly provocative. The daring eau de parfum. Vivre Modern. Caressing, yet vibrant The exciting fragrance for the '80s. <1 Perfume Pendant Gift Offer From Molyneux the contemporary gift pendant, to match your every mood. This slim, blue-lacquered,
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      221 5 European performance fromFkn-Electric, 'ust $680* < Pan-Electric does it again bringing you the best we could find for Singapore from all round the world! At left, a superb washing machine from Europe but without a European price tag. It's strong and tough, made of good quality pressed steel and expensive
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    Lock icon First casino in Red country
    91 6 AP THE first gambling casino in a communist country opens in Budapest Inter tnis month, paid for by the Hungarian Government. But the casino, which will open on April 25, will be off-limits to Hungarians. Compared to the electrify ing nightlife of Las Vegas or
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    Lock icon Sinking sparks off storm
    431 6 Japan angry over 35-hour silence by Americans AFP Reuter A POLITICAL storm developed in Japan, yesteraay, over the way the US government handled a collision between a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine and a Japanese freighter. The main issue is why it took the United states some
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    Lock icon Thinner by balloon
    71 6 Reuter CANADIAN Susan Owen lost nearly 38 kg in six months by living with a Mewn-np balloon in ber stomach, according to her doctor. The balloon was inflated through a thin to be which stayed in her body, plugged and taped to her mouth and the diet
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      66 6 All we've done with designer jeans is after the label Our clothes are exit as remarkably as our prices. 2 ND CHANCE 210/211, Peninsula Shopping Complex Open daily: 10.30 am to 9 30 pm Tel *****06 G27. The Arcade (beside Ocean Building) Open daily (except Sunday) 10 am to 6
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    Lock icon BELHI
    892 7 What the H ffMMkML ii from the worlds capitals means US News and World Report —i LOOK past the obvious reactions abroad to the attack on Reagan shock, dismay, blasts at America as a gun-toting society running amok and this hard truth emerges: Violence and political terrorism also plague
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      76 7 Extra loving beauty care. Starts with Gentle Touch. The only beauty bath soap containing Baby Oil. That pampers your skin with extra loving care. To leave you baby soft, baby j|H smooth. And subtly fragrant. mm Baby yourself with Gentle Touch jH aqua, pink and white. And experience the extra
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    Give it a chance
    141 8/9 WE SAY HAVE some of us closed our minds before giving the learn-from-Japan campaign a chance? Murmurs have been heard about the impracticality of adopting Japanese practices in personnel management and Industrial relations. Resistance is natural to injunctions rammed down the throat, one theory goes. But
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    All together now, read, read, read
    782 8/9  -  Make it easy for people to get books and give writers support If you ask me... By Damian Morgan It's time to consider another use off trees, apart from giving shade and making the air ffresher books, argues a reader. Start a national reading
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    Get the child to read to his parent
    944 8/9 Rich or poor, he can help, maybe more than teacher j v M \s^ BRENDA LONG is an eight-year-old who has just learnt to read. Nothing unusual about that, you may think except for two things. One, she was so slow in
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    DO'S and DON'TS
    169 8/9 HOW maeh training do parents need If they are to be effective as reading coaches? In the reading experiments, teachers visited the home of every parent at least once. Sometimes they gave demonstrations of how to help the child read. A few hsslc principles were explained, snch
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    EXCITING EXPERIMENT WORTH TRYING
    375 8/9  -  By Mrs Lee Sow Ling Project director, Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore THE Belfield reading experiment certainly is an exciting one; perhaps a breakthrough In education. The idea that generally the home background of a child determines to a considerable extent his school achievement is a
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    Remedial teachers better
    133 8/9 THE BettMd experiment will work with pareats wWve had little edaeaUm, a reading specialist believes. Mrs Quh May Llag, whe beads the remedial roadie* eUale la the lastltate sf Edaeatl—, said: "Pearly edaeated parents Jest da aet rit dewa and listen to a ehUd read when they
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    Hong Kong TV attacked for 'foreign' values
    1153 10  -  'Years ago they just walked hand in hand. Now they show bedroom scenes' A portrait of family happinaas, a la Man in tha Nat. Filial piaty, brotharly lova, tha importanca of trying by your own hard work and marita to gat on in
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    How current affairs can be made riveting
    532 10  -  Important things are being said but are they registering? TV Guest Column By WONG HSIEN CHEEN FRIDAY BACKGROUND, alternate Fridays, Ch 5, 7.50 p.m. THERE is a certain gawkiness to Friday Background somewhat akin to that larger awkwardness which currently pervades all of
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      124 11 IAKAI Inn Our extra pre-focus lens lets you see a clearer picture. It s obvious Because unlike* conventional TVs the National Quintrix colour TV is the only one in the world with an extra pre-focus lens in front of its picture tuhe Even so. ours have an advanced 3-gun in-line
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      1254 11 Your week's TV 1 < r Brando... pannad by critics but fall in lova with hia Polynaaian co-star TV SINGAPORE 5 8 TV MALAYSIA 3 10 J .HT Once Upon A Time Is Hretory The Story Of Princess Grace on Friday, Ch 5 at 5 p.m. Fairy tales can come
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      147 12 AKAI VIDEO VS9BOO Topping the impressive range of AKAI VHS recorders. Remote Multi-Speed Playback Automatic 8 Day Repeat Recording Memory Rewind Advanced, Simplified M-Loading SB nmmm I I II II I I AKAI Remote Control Amateur Photo Stores (Pte) Ltd, Room 503, Chinese Chamber of Commerce Building, Hill Street, Singapore
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      1149 12 MONDAY Al 1 f ALTEC LANSING 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS 3.30 SWORD OF ROMANCE (r) 4 25 DIARY OF EVENTS 4.30 HAM KALAIGNARGAL 4.55 IN THE WED WITH HARRY BUTLER: Victoria The Crossroads The great variety of flaura and fauna in the small state of
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      804 13 WEDNESDAY V ALTEC LANSING 7?*? i t+ 5 m 2 8 s'-' H i %9ks 5.30 PH. Open 5.40 Eva 2000 6.05 Adventures Of Black Beauty: Mission Of Mercy 6.30 NEWS (T) 6.49 F-Troop: The Day They Shot Agarn. Corporal Agarn faces the firing squad if charged with having caused
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      98 14 Beyondthe search We found more than you are looking for. National's NV-7000EN. The first VHS video recorder with picture finder system. Underneath this compact, neat design are features that will send your friends turning green with envy. s >■ Annealed Die-cast Chassis Remote Control Dolby NR System Quartz locked direct
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      1034 14 FRIDAY 9.55 A.M. Open 10.00 CARTOON SPECIAL: Sunshine Porcupine 10.30 LITTLE LULU. The cute comic character comes to mischievous life in this comedy starring Laurie Hendler, Kevin King Cooper, Tim Reid and Beverley Archer 10.55 CWNA ACROBATS 11.45 SOCCER: International Cup ol Clubs 1.20 PAT BOONE AND FAMILY SPECIAL. You're
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    Strange, the songs pupils are made to sing
    550 15  -  By MACAW IT IS, thankfully, not a well-known fact that the tuckshop of a certain school downtown serves a very tasty bowl of noodles known to us natives as "dah mee" or, in Mandarin, gan mien. That it does so at such
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    390 16/21  -  Latest toas to show off brawn Story: Deborah Chia WINDSURFING (or board-sailing, as the purists insist) brings out the brawn in a man. Against the elements of wind and currents, it takes some strength to bring in the sail, to
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      89 17 I'M $0 4TvP iC7 m I'M 60MA P0 If THIS -TIME I I'M JUST &oir4ffC> TAKE A PEEP BREATH, AiJP COME RitHT J—OUT AnlP ASK )<T L EG as a B M iT 1 IB I mi aerobe sou SAV Arwwtf6, wit. 9 v# me tor a question that i've
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      172 18/19 Vfwtr-v- ••••r v *> "■■v. u »"r £7 Lif'f*. ■S $rf >- ■TE? w ►JwTii "3 tM IS2 &!-'-Y R 1 mm Vv./. v*> ■PRv^ W* T<H •V hr ■I ~::fS£eii ii XKgg »*4SSI A switch to National is a switch to better living. •*v~" Ji w- i MK-2300N stand
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      155 18/19 \V w—iuii POSSESSING INCREDIBLE *SP*OER-POWERS• PETER PARKER USES HIS SCIENTIFIC WIZARDRY TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL WEB-SHOOTER c—a jd_ ~3afe. r VP^!! HAIL STREET.' BY PAY. 8i/SY ANO BUSTLING BY NIGHT, VIRTUALLY PESEKTEP EXCEPT FOR... 4 \£V£f}j fif'Wr: oxU"r*tr*ftf'I•; V-' ■iiii'J ?r.rjaniir: rtf M IMr saw »S fe„ ,vi I it.
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      75 18/19 to arte mart Walkei 6 r i you J V pBR «y S*€ v 3: ■4?. ■jjw em 0 JUST OKAV?.' you 'RE JUST TRYING TO PROVE NOTHING &ETSTO YOU/ you NEVER vVlLL ADMIT YOU'RE HURT/ IP IT BURNED OUT youR i MS I PES YOU WOULDN'T LET ON >
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      188 20 eiir Jl I A Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up one day at Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued,
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      211 20 GARTH m <r_ g DEMO,>OU DESIGNED THIS PLRCE/IS THERE RNV WRY OUT WHERE THOSE DfIMNED 6CRNNERS CRN*T V FOLLOW US? 3 Neros passes sentence... X 5 4 v 2) c §5 V 11 I j-, w A II -Jr^£ THRTS THE Ef FLUENTWRSTE FROM THE WHOLE UNDERGROUND CITY RND THE
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      847 22 zS/e MO f y TODAY 6.05 A.M. Morning Concert: Smetana's String Quartet No 2 In D Minor with the Smetana Quartet, Brahms's 9 Hungar tan Dances and Dvorak's 6 Slavonic Dances played by the London Sympho ny Orchestra conducted by Boskovsky 7.30 Breaktast Club (Mandarin) 900 Platter Parade with Richard
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    Hatchet job by a quiet historian
    1169 23  -  Australian Foreign Minister's bluff was called by Churchill The Book Page Reviewed by Alex Josey DIPLOMATIC WITNESS. By Paul Hasluck. Melbourne University Press, 1980. 306 pp, As2s. THIS is a personal account of participation in Australian foreign affairs from 1941 to 1947 by a
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    When the spying stopped and the killing started
    274 23  -  THE FRENCH DECISION. By David Osborn. Granada, 1980. 250 pp, $10.50. Revi«w*d by Silv«rfish RESCUED from the dockside of Le Havre, Aaron Zeismann is trained and sent to tunnel deep into Washington. In less than 20 years, he comes so close to
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      109 23 "v'stfgya >. Hi -v AKATS NEW PROIOOOSERIES ¥»u can now enjoy home stereo al its best on terms thiat are even better. The easypay plan is wel within any budget. A smal dcwnpayment and easy monthly instalments. There are over 200 easypay centres located around Singapore. Convenient. ImmecSate. And so
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    Kent Ridge: Ugly and tasteless
    546 24 Laid out in confusing fashion too I CANNOT agree with last week's oentrespread on the Kent Ridge campus. It gives a distorted picture of the campus, making it out to be better than it actually is. I would like to make these points. Finding one's
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    Christine Khor replies
    141 24 I HAD aimed for a balanced picture of Kent Ridge, incorporating Its pros and cons, after talking to a cross-section of Its community. One framework I adopted was a comparative view of it and the old Bnkit Tlmah campas. To appreciate Eva's Kitchen, for Instance, yon most
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      215 24 Dear Editor Your letter must giv« your nam* and ■ddrMS, though you may include a pseudonym it you 'don't want your name published. Pteese type your letter, double spaced, on one side only end give a telephone number et which you may be contected. Jfl ijL--i NOOTHER JB TOUR OPERATOR
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      587 25 The Sunday Nation-Travel '81 contest will be published on three consecutive Sundays on 5,12, and 19 April. There will be a total of nine pictures of different places of interest. Three pictures will be published each Sunday and all you need to do is name the country in which the
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    Discos, markets, shops and thousands of islands
    1541 26  -  Tsang Sau Yin THE first Europeans who set foot on the Philippines called it the Watering Place of the Gods or, in Spanish, La Aquada de las Buenas Senales. Today's Filipinos like to call it their Island World a description prompted by a
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    Bak kut teh in an instant from a sachet
    428 27  -  Tabic for One By Terry Tan SPICY PORK RIB SOUP LIKING bak kut teh (pork rib soup) is one thing. Preparing it even for seasoned cooks is a another matter. The method seems simple enough but the flavouring comes from a
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    Weed out stones with handy sieves
    276 27 Metal is stronger but plastic does not rust SOIL sieves such as those shown here are essential for the gardener who has a lot of potted plants. They come in a variety of sizes and can be made either of metal (left) or of
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    Awesome, elegant Sarah Vaughan
    508 28  -  Pop. pourri By I Peter Ong IF YOU haven't heard of Sarah Vaughan, then you don't know what consummate vocal artistry is all about. Not since Billie Holiday has there been another singer of such immaculate •kills as Miss Vaughan. I don't mean to discredit the
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    SUNDAY TEASER
    122 28 THE winning caption, inspired by the product advertisement, comes from Maggie Cheong of Marine Drive. She wins $25. Two women peeping into a PAP kindergarten class at Ang Mo Kio while a little boy is obviously more interested in the photographer (New Nation's David Tan) is the subject
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    Feed the kids and make a small fortune
    708 28 HUMOUR w th THE late great humorist Robert Benchley's sentiment about there being only two ways to travel, one with children and two without children, more than coincides with my feeling towards our little people. Especially when it involves eating. One single
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      61 28 GET ANOTHER TICKET!! CHECK WITH YOUR RECORD DEALER FOR DETAILS ON THE ERIC CLAPTON ANOTHER TICKET LUCKY DRAW.' ATTRACTIVE PRIZES, INCLUDING 10 SOLID SILVER HAND-MADE PENDANTS OF CLAPTON'S FENDER STRATOCASTER GUITAR MUST BE WON! Hurry! This lucky draw it (or a vary limitad period only!! (Valid from 6 April 31
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    Ordinary plot and actors, extraordinary Bedford
    537 29  -  jJd By Tan Bah Bah ORDINARY PEOPLE (Jacte) WHAT is so great, or to use that excruciating cliche, extraordinary, about Ordinary People? The experts say: (1) "Admirable... touching... the anxiety, despair and joy that are common to every human experience of suffering and growth"
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