Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politically Sontag describes herself as a social democrat. But in the 1960s, amid the revulsion aroused by the Viet Nam War, she traveled to Havana and Hanoi and wrote about both places sympathetically, though not without misgivings. Read today, the mismatch in those essays between her complex inquiries and the nostrums of Communism is palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition...
...winter, Bush strategists had known they had to spruce up the Vice President's image. George Bush was seen as awkward, wimpish, maladroit. So Bush's handlers engineered a makeover. They had him utter self-deprecating cracks about his lack of charisma. They arranged for him to be photographed amid his photogenic grandchildren...
...world. Pleasure becomes business in a city that is both sedative and stimulant. At first light you can ride along the back canals around the Temple of the Dawn, where saffron-robed monks paddle from river house to river house collecting food; in the morning you can lose yourself amid the chapels, bejeweled Buddhas and murals of the 60-acre Grand Palace, in the midst of which, atop a golden altar and dimly glowing in the dark, sits the Golden Buddha, the mysterious spiritual heart of the city. Everywhere Bangkok glitters with lavish monuments to its faith: the Marble Palace...
...gives us a hint into the meaning of human life, it is less in the facts it presents, than the investigative process the book both describes and represents. The search itself has given meaning to the lives of the three scientists and indeed, to the life of their biographer: amid their many differences in interests, ideal and temperament, this god of discovery and restless seeking informs all their lives...
Rosenberg says the Zone's turnaround began 12years ago amid furor over Puopolo's murder. Atthat time, the city started a serious clean upeffort...