Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author aims most effectively for the mind's ear; his fiction is filled with exuberant noise, the din of voices demanding attention, explaining themselves, complaining about the way the world has treated them. "Man has no more freedom than a bedbug," insists one. "In this respect, Spinoza was right." Another tells how jealousy drove him crazy: "I now hated all women. Lifting my hands to heaven, I swore never to marry." The narrator asks, "Did you keep your word?" The laconic response: "I have six grandchildren." Singer's people seldom shy away from expounding on the mysteries of existence: "People...
...hijackers, perhaps the most professional team of air pirates yet encountered, took elaborate precautions against revealing their identities. Yet Washington, citing accounts from released hostages, says one of the gunmen is Hassan Izz-al-Din, a Lebanese who is believed to have been directly involved in the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, speaking in Helsinki en route to pre-summit meetings in Moscow: "I don't think ((releasing the hijackers)) is a proper thing to do." But he declined to "second-guess" Algeria...
Although the group was not as professional as the Din and Tonics, they displayed a lot of raw talent, spectactors said. "We sang the National Anthem, and 'Big Bottoms," from the movie 'Spinal Tap,' because it seemed appropriate at the time," said one of the singers, who requested anonymity...
...beaten and shot to death. The kidnapers holding many of the more than 20 Western hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans, have also made release of the prisoners in Kuwait their key demand. In Washington, Administration officials said hostages freed from Flight 422 indicated that Hassan Izz-al-Din, one of four men indicted by a federal grand jury for Stethem's slaying, might be on the Kuwaiti plane...
Their freshness extends to comedy, the part of their show that they either create during the 48 hours before the performance or improvise onstage, as when Din Junhee Lee offered the first stuff. While holding a can of WD-40 motor oil up to the audience, Lee asked front-row fan Karen Kasch if she had a car. She said no. Lee said, "That's perfect. It's yours...