Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1982 may be remembered in history as the time Israel passed from adolescence to adulthood. The illusions of a child are left behind. But the Jewish state remains special, an oasis in a desert. Its citizens have built a working democracy from scratch in a region that has no others. Israelis must treasure that democracy, protect it with all their will. For if they don't, the growing pains that are Lebanon, Shatila and Sabra, the repression of Arabs and the feud between Ashkenazim and Sephardim could turn into a plague...
...river rats," as they call themselves, were busy last week cleaning and rebuilding, helping one another with fatalistic good humor. In the makeshift emergency center sits a tiny bronze trophy with a paper sign: "1st place, Times Beach, highest contamination of dioxin award for bravery." Many residents, reluctant to desert the town, plan to wait to see if the Government will provide relocation funds, as it did for the residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was also polluted with dioxin. "I have no place else to go," said former Mayor Charles E. Yarbro. "Relocation and a second...
...collected more than $465,000 in the last two seasons without taking a title, reeled off a string of four consecutive birdies on his way to a closing 65. Morgan shot 67 and Wadkins, a three-time winner last season, had a 68 in the bright, warm desert sunshine...
Konner surveys and synthesizes a tremendous amount of data, including his own observations of hunting gathering life made during twenty months spent with the 'Kung San people of the Kalahari Desert in Africa. He distrusts a great deal of previous scientific writings and finds much of the literature "superficially impressive but historically impossible." Ever on his guard against "the dangers of behavioral biology," he includes an encapsulated history of the misuse of "science" to justify social aims--nineteenth century racial theories, the Nazis' view of the Jews as genetically interior, and Shockleyian notions about the inherent intellectual superiority of some...
...incidents in The Dark Crystal are unremarkable; as the excuse for special effects, fanciful decor and eccentric characters, they do nicely enough. Here, as in such ambitious films as Blade Runner and Diva, texture is more important than text. The slow funeral procession of Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis' cruddy doge's palace, in which these hilariously sloppy eaters dine on live Podlings and scheme for ascendancy; Jen's dream sequence, briefly sparkling with hope and memory-all are set pieces that justify the expense and the viewer's attention...