Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritzy because we always have dessert," explains Browning one night when the chef, Marcia Rorty '84, offers a dark chocolate mousse with fresh whipped cream to top off her spaghetti and garlic bread dinner...
...dark star of Shiffer's story is Ariel Sharon; the central theme, how Sharon pressed for the invasion from the day he became Defense Minister in 1981. That is not news, of course, but Snow Ball amply documents Sharon's zealous lobbying in Cabinet meetings and among his generals. Sharon plumped for the attack, according to Shiffer, despite the fact that Israeli military intelligence concluded that the skirmishing between Palestine Liberation Organization forces and Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border in July 1981 was provoked by the Israelis, not by the P.L.O. The Begin government, which used...
...work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark-skinned youngsters sporting the accents of Provence, Bavaria or the Midlands. Willy-nilly, the societies of Western Europe had become multiracial...
...curtain, of course, is by no means solely British. Customs officials around the Continent routinely single out dark-skinned travelers for special scrutiny. Taxi drivers in the Dutch city of Nijmegen refused to accept black customers after one Surinamese failed to pay his fare. Brussels abounds with signs that say FOR RENT with a NO FOREIGNERS footnote...
Murder, adultery, more murder; an innocent man with a guilty look about his actions; a beautiful secretary who believes in him when everyone else has him tried and convicted; a wise private eye and a less than canny police inspector. Neon lights, inky shadows, rain glistening on the dark streets, an odd moment or two devoted to tough-guy philosophizing...