Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academy Award really a superlative anymore? What do all the big Oscar movies seem to have in common? Big budgets. Big names. Big, long boring stretches between the title and the credits. And one more thing: Big Issues...
Harvard's Community Relations Representative, Richard Doherty, said he was concerned that several common substances may be affected by the bill. "But it may not affect us at all," said Doherty, adding that if the bill is passed the University will have to conduct a survey of the amount toxic chemicals used on campus...
Outside his native France, Novelist Georges Perec (1936-82) was known chiefly as a member of OuLiPo, an acronym for Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). The authors and scientists who constituted this informal group had a common goal: the discovery of new or fiendishly difficult and complex ways of arranging words in sequence. When it came to setting Procrustean rules and then writing freely in spite of them, none of the OuLiPo circle was more inventive and whimsical than Perec. He composed a full-length novel, La Disparition, without once using the letter e. He devised...
...most populous and powerful state so that Cairo's 450,000-man army could be held up as a counterbalance to the Iranian threat. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, dressed in military garb and packing a revolver, called for a "rallying of Arab ranks in the face of the common danger...
According to sources at the Amman summit, the Syrian-Iraqi reconciliation implied by the condemnation of Iran will take concrete form in the next two weeks. Diplomatic relations will be restored, common borders will be reopened, and a dialogue between the governments will begin. For the moment, however, ! Syria is not severing its alliance with Iran. Foreign Minister Farouk Shara'a said, after the summit ended, that "Syria is against condemning Iran because it wasn't the beginner...