Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they...
Sinkholes are common in Florida. State law makes sinkhole insurance standard in a homeowner's policy-it covers a house but not, ironically, the land that disappears beneath. As Orange County appraisers last week were pondering what to do about the Owenses' next property tax bill, at least seven more sinkholes opened up elsewhere in the state...
Land leasing has been a necessity in other areas. In Palm Springs, Calif., where about half the land is owned by the Agua Caliente Indians, many home buyers lease their land. Large industrial concerns like Du Pont, Foremost-McKesson and Shell Oil have long rented the ground beneath their buildings to conserve capital for other purposes...
...Beneath the deft mimicry is the cultural critic's remove from his subject and his audience. This is not new. All humor is a detached analysis, an autopsy of the society's dreams and demons. As the sit-down iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche put it, "A joke is an epitaph on an emotion." The post-funny comics go a step further by taking the ironist's step back. By making fun of the obsequiousness and desperation found in the lower circles of show-business purgatory, they are chiseling epitaphs on epitaphs. They haunt cemeteries of frayed hopes...
...enjoyed nearly a decade of peace since the 1973 October War. It had signed a historic peace treaty with Egypt, the largest and most powerful of its Arab neighbors. It had achieved a fair measure of prosperity and a high living standard for its 3.9 million citizens. Yet beneath the surface gaiety Israel's mood was troubled. The once exuberant young democracy, the land of gardens in the desert and triumphs on the battlefield, showed signs of age, uneasiness and uncertainty. In many ways it seemed a nation at odds with itself, with its past, with its values...