Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagination and her invincible ironies. Although Paley continues to skirt the political confrontations she elicits in life, her writing ministers to the walking wounded from the '60s. In "Friends," three women gather at the bedside of a dying companion. All have yet another cause for sorrow: a daughter found dead in a faraway rooming house. A boy vanished into California: "a son, a boy of fifteen, who disappears before your very eyes into a darkness or a light behind his own, from which neither hugging nor hitting can bring...
...calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news. Now married, she works as a bus girl in a Las Vegas casino...
...Administration's plan was cloaked in secrecy, then unwrapped with theatrical effect. On Wednesday, House Republican Leader Robert Michel informed Ronald Reagan that resumption of U.S. military funding for the contras fighting Nicaragua's government was "dead in the water" unless there was a "change in the formulation of policy." The President offered no hint of any new flexibility. But the next morning he dispatched National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to brief some 20 congressional leaders of both parties in the House Intelligence Committee's bug-proof room high in the Capitol. That afternoon Reagan held a press conference...
...Managua's view, the U.S. "humanitarian" support would let the contras spend more of their own funds on weapons. At week's end, the government formally rejected the plan in a note to Washington. Contended Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann: "What President Reagan has said is, 'You drop dead, or I will kill...
Hollein has flouted the fetishes of dead-end, blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade...