Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballet section, in particular, suffers from excessive talk, despite rare footage of the legendary Isadora Duncan and a brief clip of Rudolf Nuryev dancing with Margot Fonteyn. Presumably this is because ballet requires more explanation for today's audiences...
...brief, Tribe argued that "the only way to be safe is either to steer clear of the whole topic or whenever the subject comes up, to proclaim complete aversion to homosexuals...
...hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During a brief argument, a Thai sergeant said, "If you fire at us, we'll fire back." Replied the Vietnamese, "If you fire at us, we'll invade Thailand." In the end, the Vietnamese pulled back into Kampuchea after being warned that the Thai government would "take action." Thai soldiers set out orange...
Last week's attack, especially the brief incursion into Thailand, drew a predictable response from Washington, which termed the intrusion "deplorable." In Peking, the Chinese government issued condemnations of "the crimes of aggression committed by the Vietnamese," but refrained from making any direct threats against Hanoi. Despite reported Chinese troop movements over the past few weeks along the Sino-Vietnamese border, Peking does not appear eager to repeat its costly 1979 invasion of Viet Nam in order to relieve the pressure on its Kampuchean allies...
During the brief, odd season of the 1982 strike, when the defending world champion 49ers won just three of nine games, they crossed over the border. Injuries were rampant, but some damage reports came in late from the Super Bowl, not all physical. "It's such a hype, such a dramatic and traumatic experience," Walsh says, "you can be consumed by it. When the glory first starts to erode and then quickly passes completely, some players seek that state of mind elsewhere and can't find it. We've had our victims." Then last year San Francisco returned to form...