Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right arm and feels for a usable vein. No one seems to notice as she grips one end of a yellow plastic cord in her teeth and winds the other end tightly around her arm, readying it for the needle. It could be the South Bronx, East Los Angeles, Amsterdam or London-the traditional dumping grounds for Asia's deadly commodity, heroin. But this is mid-afternoon in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, where heroin has long been perceived as an illegal export sold only abroad to residents of the U.S. and other weak-willed Western cultures...
...Cafe Central on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan provides the setting for most of the film, an appropriate meeting ground for the movie's two central characters, Eli (Michael Emil) and Zee (Karen Black). The way the two meet epitomizes the cuteness that fails to turn into a driving, enjoyable plot. Zee, a neurotic singer, walks down Columbus Avenue just after her husband has decided to move out. Switching from Zee's short dress and high heels, the camera shifts to Eli's office, where the balding, crotchety, middle-aged girl chaser is advising his friend Martin to "Just be natural...
Silvera began his work on metallic hydrogen while at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught for 11 years until 1982, when he joined the Harvard faculty. He has also worked at the Roskwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He received his degree from the University of California at Berkeley
...years passed, and now Samaranch appears ebulliently at ease. Los Angeles had no rivals in bidding for the coming Summer Games, but Samaranch says that Brisbane, New Delhi, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Stockholm are fighting over 1992, and the entries are not closed yet. The Olympic spirit is hopeful again. If it would only snow...
Drug abuse, prostitution and assorted other crimes-minor and major-flourish in many immigrant ghettos. Young Turks and Surinamese are deeply involved in the narcotics trade around Amsterdam; addiction is common among young North Africans in Paris. Says Nordine Iznasni, 21, a resident of the notorious Cité Gutenberg, a collection of ramshackle, barrack-like buildings in the Paris suburb of Nanterre: "When you've got nothing to do and nothing to look forward to, it's a way to hide from reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect...