Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father, the ever-cool psychiatrist, becomes completely incoherent. "They don't...six hours...Israel...my back...outrageous...Gate 34..." What dad? Speak English...
...took all the popular courses. I was too cool to hang out with first-year students, and after a week I never ate in the Union, and never attended first-year parties...
...people: stoic Sidney Poitier and sassy Eddie Murphy, angelic sitcom kid and fuming rapmaster. Lee's movie bravely tries both approaches. It gives you sweet, then rancid, but without explaining why it turned. He holds the film like a can of beer in a paper bag -- the cool sip of salvation on a blistering day -- until it is revealed as a Molotov cocktail...
...staff writer to live in Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class reportage that deserves honor as history's first draft...
...Rome and costing as much as $200 million to build, the basilica of Our Lady of Peace is Ivory Coast President Houphouet- Boigny's gift to all Africa's Christians and to the Vatican. But in his impoverished homeland, critics charge him with unseemly extravagance, and Rome seems cool to the gesture...