Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not go unpunished." Scarcely 17 hours later, 14 French Super Etendard fighter-bombers from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau staged a 35-minute attack on the same region of the Bekaa Valley, leveling barracks and training bases of the Shi'ite extremists. Among the targets was the ancient city of Baalbek's Khawwam Hotel, the command headquarters of the estimated 1,000 Iranian Islamic revolutionary guards who have been operating in the Bekaa Valley for the past 18 months (see box). The next step could be a retaliatory strike by the U.S., though officials in Washington were undecided...
...event eerily fused, for a moment, the normally dissociated dimensions of public life and private life. And so Americans felt Kennedy's death in a deeply personal way: they, and he, were swept into a third dimension, the mythic. The ancient Greeks thought that gods and goddesses came down and walked among them and befriended them or betrayed them. The drama 20 years ago-bright young life and light and grace and death all compounded by the bardic camera-turned Kennedy into a kind of American...
...woman's character. A corollary which may be a revelation to some men. A women's chest sizes has nothing to do with sex drive (except perhaps yours, upon viewing a pair). The myth that all well-endowed women are sex-crazy was probably started by some ancient male writer plagued by a seven case of wishful thinking...
THERE'S A LOT going on in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the Kirkland Drama Society's fall production. The musical-comedy set in ancient Rome seeks to pull together elaborate dance numbers, a host of subtle one-liners, and an absurdly contrived plot with many minor characters. But with excellent casting and the help of an enthusiastic crowd, the 20-person company stages a fun, well-paced production which captures the audience's sense of humor...
...Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish Holy Cross thus forsworn, or to dispraise Harvard with that same tongue which I hath prais'd it with above compare so may thousand times? Go, predictions, thou and my school spirit henceforth shall be twain...