Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter, Alex wrote that Beirut, with its shanties and vivid street life, reminded him of Juárez, his border-town birthplace. The family left Juárez when Alex was five; but his mother remembers that as a baby there he would throw a fit whenever she washed his hair. That does not seem long ago to his parents. Says Jesus Muñoz: "He was still like...
...historical accuracy and plans to present it at its annual convention in December. In rewriting the script, Young looked at the original court transcripts, depositions, and newspaper articles from the case. The film is already being used in schools and colleges to document the social climate in the border states in the early twentieth century. But its importance for the present is even more pronounced. Watching the cultural conflict between Cortez and his Anglo adversaries brings the audience closer to dealing with its own cultural biases. The tragedy that resulted from the language gap between Cortez and the sheriff underlines...
...colleagues evidently agree. Last week the House, voting 227 to 194, passed an amendment to the intelligence bill that would prohibit further funding of the disparate terrorist groups fighting against Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. The Administration wanted $50 million for the several small armies based in border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. In a letter to O'Neill, Secretary Shultz pleaded for continued funding, arguing that regular attacks by the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas in Nicaragua provide essential pressure on the Sandinistas to cut back their support of Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador...
...addition, the USGS study notes that since 1982 earthquakes have shaken California's Coso Range, a volcanic region west of Death Valley; Yellowstone National Park, which is famed for its hot springs and geysers, notably Old Faithful; and Mammoth Lakes, a popular California ski resort near the Nevada border...
David Rabe's war play Streamers takes place in a kind of boot camp on the border of national psychosis. Here boredom sinks into despair; high spirits become hysterics; the killer instinct can flare with switchblade speed. Set in 1965, Streamers was written soon after the 1975 fall of Sai gon, and Rabe's dialogue glows with the white heat of hindsight. His four young draftees are doomed from the start, either by their blithe ignorance of the horror to come or by their premonition...