Word: dahlia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp...
...blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs, Lander applies to the Palestinians, an alarming people indeed: "Najeer ... wore a hood of shadow. His hands were in the light and they toyed with a black commando knife ... 'Do it, Dahlia. Kill as many...
...Gary Cooper role goes to Major Kabakov of the Israeli Secret Service, a tough mensh who (unlike the book's CIA men) is in no danger of stepping on his own necktie. Kabakov's stalking of Dahlia and Lander is competently described, violent, technically interesting and utterly predictable...
Today the Rabins live part of the time in the Premier's official residence in Jerusalem and part of the time in their eighth-floor penthouse apartment in a North Tel Aviv suburb. Their daughter Dahlia, 24, is an apprentice lawyer, and Son Yuval, 19, is a tank-corps officer stationed in Sinai. For years the family lived in a house in the Tel Aviv suburb of Zahala, just around the corner from Moshe Dayan, but decided to move last year. For one thing, says the vivacious Leah Rabin with a sniff, living next to Dayan was noisy because...
...head of the stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully...