Prerevolution

Lawyers place primary blame for the prosecution's position on the Ministry of Interior and the state public prosecution office—both of which are staffed almost entirely by prerevolution hires. ❋ Matt Bradley (2012)

The hero of Inherent Vice worries that "the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness," that "everything in this dream of prerevolution was in fact doomed to end," with the "faithless, money-driven world" reasserting "its control over all the lives it felt entitled to touch, fondle and molest." ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

He recalled that prerevolution Cuban society was already very impermeable to religion, which found its main supporters among the middle and upper classes. ❋ Unknown (1989)

"And in the past, prerevolution, you needed bribery to get your paperwork through." ❋ By HANNAH SELIGSON (2011)

Cuba Nostalgia is a three-day festival that celebrates all things Cuban, particularly the prerevolution glory days of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Youssefi doesn't remember exactly when the photo was taken, but it signifies the calm before the storm-before the young girl and her family encountered the "total madness" of prerevolution Iran. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Gordon belonged to South Florida, and South Florida was a great tangle of fakery too, desperate to turn itself into Kenya, Brazil, Madagascar, Tahiti, Hawaii, Kentucky, the Pyrenees, or prerevolution Santiago de Cuba. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)