Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term impact of the continued occupation, on Israel as much as on the West Bank. Says Emmanual Sivan, a professor of Islamic history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "For the generation of Israelis in their 20s, the occupation has been the natural order of things; this is certainly bad. They have learned that the Arabs are at the lower end of the ladder, which creates a vision of each other that is not conducive to coexistence. I'm not worried about whether or not we can hold on to the territories. But the price we pay worries...
...accident. Going further, Metzenbaum is considering federal legislation forbidding insurance companies to cancel or refuse to renew policies unless a person runs up a long record of claims for mishaps that are his own fault. That would help to still the protests and make claimants feel that, whatever their bad luck, they were at least getting a fair shake...
...high index is not necessarily a bad index," he explains nonchalantly, adding that he sees no improvement in the months ahead. As if to ensure that prophecy, he has instructed officials to dismantle one of France's most entrenched institutions: the system of 30,000 decrees that since 1945 has controlled the price of almost all manufactured goods, from trucks to biscuits. This bombshell, more over, is hitting as the economy is still absorbing the impact of another recent Barre move: increases of up to 20% in the prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied...
L.B.M.: Then let's do a space scene. Maybe lower some flying saucers from the ceiling, stage a big star war and drown the bad guys under a couple of waterfalls. With the right kind of equipment, we could pump 6,000 gallons and water down every drink in the first four rows...
Handke refuses to embroider this minimal plot in any of the usual ways. Marianne does not ruminate in an interesting or even terribly coherent manner about her situation. Other characters tell her that she may come to a bad end but do not say why. There is no fancy writing to divert the eye or the mind. Translator Ralph Manheim captures an English equivalent of Handke's German prose: dry, simple and spare, as if the author were trying to strip language of as much resonance as possible. Even forward momentum is thwarted; the story is chopped into segments...