Word: arme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing to do with the blunders and greed of the upper classes toward the colonies...
...pellet was fired from a neighboring building and hit Nilguen Eksi, 18, as she was sitting by an open window in her parents' flat in West Berlin. "I felt a stab of pain in my right arm and screamed," she says. "They had to take me to the hospital to have the pellet removed." The police caught the culprit, a young German, who admitted responsibility. "He fired the gun at me because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German...
...choreography supplied much of the wonder that the piece possessed. It allowed the dancers to appear as if they were really dancing, with heart and soul. While they were not really using very big, broad steps Instead, they confined their actions to subtle. Yet very intricate foot and arm movements. The entire 30-minute piece seemed to eclipse in about 15 seconds as the whole audience fell under the hushed, dream-like sequence of events. Although the entire cast deserved mention. Elaine Kudo should be singled out for her superlative technique and presence. Whenever she danced she seemed to cast...
...medals, chose not to capitalize beyond a few polite nods here and there. His sport is as obscure as ever. Even though the U.S. has won 16 speed-skating gold medals, including the first one, by Charles Jewtraw in 1924, few Americans are stirred by so much gliding and arm swinging. Terry McDermott, the skating barber of 1964, and Sheila Young, a highlight of 1976, came around (and around) without cutting any lasting...
...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...