Word: burg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found themselves plunged into debate over the religious orientation of their state. Observed Hebrew University professor Ehud Sprinzak: "Most of the results have nothing to do with peace and security problems, but with a new sort of configuration inside Israel. The people are going back to God." Said Avraham Burg, a new Labor Deputy: "The results reflect a protest against the major blocs. The religious element is crystallizing into a third bloc, which will determine who will run Israel...
...lovely day and people want to explore Cambridge," said Barbara A. Burg, reference librarian. "If you took a straw vote asking, 'Do you know Widener is open?' a lot of people wouldn...
...dissenters' pleas are answered in Pale Kings and Princes, a wry and rowdy tale of a Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most of the talk is badinage rather than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that...
...tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
...gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also...