Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the cheerily impersonal, pun-riddles "Love For Tender," to the spare, sprightly "Opportunity," with Steve Naive's organ bouncing brightly around the upper register as Elvis sings of the War, the baby boom, no jobs, and women who earned their money by pushing their "bedroom eyes." In "New Amsterdam," Elvis's deprecatory hymn to New York, the waltz time perfectly captures the invisible chains of people "living a life that is almost like suicide...
...AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4, 1975 Demanding independence for the South Moluccan Archipelago, gunmen seize the Indonesian consulate, taking 30 hostages, including 16 children. Negotiations obtain release of some children. Terrorists surrender after 16-day siege, during which one prisoner dies, three are injured while escaping...
...public transportation, as well as the cost of a wide range of services such as getting a haircut or having a suit cleaned. Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles topped the buying-power list. New York, the only other U.S. city included in the survey, placed sixth, behind Amsterdam and Zurich...