Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the plates made it impossible to forget. At 1:47 on Tuesday morning, Taiwan was slammed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. Centered near Puli, the quake left nearly 2,000 dead and at least 100,000 homeless and toppled some 6,000 buildings. Relief agencies from around the world, including the U.S., Turkey and Russia, mobilized to help. In financial centers, stocks took a pounding of their own as investors fretted about what the shutdown of Taiwan's microchip industry would mean to the always jumpy electronics sector...
Then we will go back. But even if I return, I may not remain. For the rest of my life, I want to travel around like a bhikshu, or Buddhist mendicant. I have received many invitations. Monks come here from monasteries all over Tibet, and they invite me to come and stay with them. But I feel it's better just to visit these places. So I will wander about. And from time to time, I will even come back to see my friends outside Tibet. Some genuine friendships have developed during this very difficult period. That is really precious...
...historical sleight of hand has one virtue, aside from creating commercially valuable buzz. Trying to thread one's way through what is made up and what is real in this book is not unlike being around the actual Reagan, who invented statistics, replayed movie plots as if they were history and answered questions with such bewildering non sequiturs that interrogators were stunned into silence. This biography could have been called Zelig Meets Chauncey Gardner...
Morris is also a brilliant writer--of both fact and fiction. His stylishness is so dazzling that the reader may want to forgive the manipulation he has employed. Again, this re-creates the experience of being around Reagan, who was so deeply likeable as a human being that even the most querulous reporter could be charmed into protecting him from his own vacuousness...
...their programs weren't half as good as their marketing pitch. The daily news show was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Girl's Locker Talk was a cheesy sex-talk show, and In the Neighborhood was just plain strange: viewers got to follow a guy wandering around Venice Beach, Calif., trying to pick up women and hanging out with eccentric friends...