Word: apts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backward is one way to describe the country. Brutal, according to those who have escaped, is more apt. Significantly, the escapees include more and more former Khmer Rouge fighters who once served as the enforcers for Angka Loeu, the "Organization on High," which runs the country as a Communist fiefdom...
...since a strict caste system separates the "jocks" (often children of the town's wealthier residents) and the "wall rats," so named because they once congregated along a wall behind the school to smoke before an inner courtyard was designated this year as a smoking area. Their fathers are apt to be mill hands or fishermen, and they tend to come from poor or broken homes...
Dylan Thomas' haunting words about death are not usual newspaper fare, but they provided a poignantly apt beginning for the debut of Jory Graham's new column last July. Her twice-a-month appearances in the Chicago Daily News entitled "A time to live ..." are written for those who live under the shadow of death-either their own or that of someone close to them. As she wryly points out, Graham, 50, is herself on that "endangered list." An attractive, soft-spoken author and public relations counsel, she has lost both breasts to cancer, and this year learned...
...never approached the power or political skill of James Michael Curley, but it is obvious the former Boston mayor is Vellucci's role model. Curley perfected the urban ethnic style of politics that some call "urban populism," and Vellucci has been an apt pupil and improviser...
...temptation to forgive Chabrol for this excess is formidable; the story deals with a depraved woman, and the humiliation meted out to her seems apt. But in so doing, the director irreparably damages the flow of the narrative, and the next transition only calls attention to his oversight. Realizing that he has abandoned the intrepid detectives in the mid-stream of their investigation, Chabrol suddenly thrusts them back into the picture as a not-so-subtle afterthought. The policemen somehow fasten onto the idea that the husband--long ago presumed to have been the victim of a murder they cannot...