Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit is a funny play, but it's not exactly his funniest. Coward shows us his darker side in this play about a middle-aged man's troubled relationship with his two wives, one of whom has been dead for seven years...
...past years, Cornell fans have been known to throw fish at opposing players and tie dead chickens to their goal posts. Some said students spend most of their winter hibernation in upstate New York thinking of new ways to taunt the Harvard goalie...
...Service funds, estimated at (pounds)4 million, that are thought to have been used by Fiona to set up an intelligence network in East Germany. But one can never be sure. Deighton dangles quite a few possibilities that should lure readers on to future Samson adventures. In addition to dead men who do not stay dead, there may be a defector who may not be defective: a small hint is dropped that Fiona could be working for our side after all. When last seen, Bernie is on the run from his own people. Obviously he still has miles...
...spread, hundreds of Armenians living in Azerbaijan fled Kirovabad, Baku and other areas. In Yerevan, the Armenian capital, huge crowds gathered day after day to hear the latest news from Azerbaijan. Toward week's end, amid reports that ethnic clashes in some villages in Armenia had left two people dead, Moscow dispatched troops to Yerevan and ordered a nighttime curfew in the city...
...current crisis of the left stems from the brutal fact that the idea of socialism is dead (its obituary is being written even in China and Russia) and the agenda of social democracy is exhausted. In Britain, Israel and the U.S., the social-democratic party has completed its historic and heroic task of creating the structure of the modern welfare state. Its agenda enacted, the party has run out of energy and ideas. Consequently, the party of the right, with its claim on the nationalist idea and all its attendant emotional and political power, has been handed the game almost...