Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancing girls, stomping about like Dionysiac butterflies under the gaze of their fellow workers on the balcony; and on the left, the bathhouse and the assignation room, where a girl in a bronze-colored robe exhibits one pale, abstract thigh with an air of consummate indifference, while the open door behind her discreetly indicates that her client has just left. Like other screens in the show, this one reminds us that - despite the wonders of democracy and industrial growth - the quality of life in Japan may not have remarkably improved in the past three centuries...
Those interested in the deeper and darker--and older--side of things will like the Starr Bookstore on Plympton St. It's one of those places that you stroll into, perhaps in search of an obscure, out-of-print copy of The Scarlet Letter. When you walk in the door, your first glance will tell you that you will never be able to find it; amazingly enough, however, the salespeople there usually seem to know off the top of their heads if they have what you want, and they are extraordinarily nice about helping you. The store is very crowded...
Carter also emphasized U.S. economic and military strength. Still, he left open to the Kremlin the door to mutual cooperation. He reaffirmed détente as "central to world peace," but added that it must be "reciprocal." The President offered Moscow a wide variety of potential areas for working together with the U.S., ranging from joint solution of political problems in Rhodesia, Namibia, even Ethiopia, to further development of trade, cultural and scientific exchanges. Even the prospects for a SALT II agreement, noted Carter in an upbeat section of his speech, were "good...
...houses in Arab villages, while women in colorfully embroidered dresses still gather to wash and gossip at the central well. In Jewish settlements that dot the sun-drenched landscape, youths in jeans and yarmulkes dance the hora after school is let out. Their parents leave guns at the door when they gather at the community center-surrounded, as often as not, by barbed wire and sandbags-for Sabbath prayer...
...woman shut the door behind him and stood there. She heard the car driving off; she went to the coatrack beside the door and thrust her head in among the coats...