Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...
However it is celebrated, France's birthday party promises to be anything but boring. The main business of such a celebration is, after all, a kind of % national introspection. More than a century ago, historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the first cool head to examine the various sides of the revolution, wrote, "Happy are those who can tie together in their thoughts the past, the present and the future. No Frenchman of our time has had this happiness." In this bicentennial year, the task seems daunting as ever. But the stimulation of ideas and the resulting reflection make the jubilee remembrance...
...owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
...good news is that Joe Jackson has, by this time, developed into a nearly flawless songwriter. His 1979 debut album Look Sharp had few bad cuts, and since then Jackson has consistently experimented with standard pop forms and non-pop genres--among them big-band swing, cool jazz, salsa and orchestral music. Eleven albums later he presents us with pop music that almost guarantees an eclectic, hookladen album--which Jackson does deliver...
...surge in violence seemed to undermine plans by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to cool off the uprising by holding elections in the occupied territories. Neither Palestinians nor Israelis appear ready to end their violent confrontation...