Word: drownings
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Sheik Abdullah Shami, spiritual leader of the Islamic Jihad, apologized to Arafat and warned his followers that "the Palestinian street" should not "drown in side battles." Earlier, however, he issued a provocative message, pronouncing that in the future the organization's "guns will not know any difference between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police." The militants had previously avoided such talk out of fear of igniting a civil...
Kennedy's Children, set in 1974, deals with five survivors of the excesses of the Sixties, who drown their sorrows as they reminisce on a decade gone bad. Each character, illuminated in turn by a spotlight, speaks in a series of monologues. They never interact; only one character ever even moves from his chair. In the hands of a talented actor, this format is a challenge to work with pacing and dynamics to keep the audience's attention. Unfortunately, not all the actors are up to the challenge, and the production soon loses its novelty and goes flat...
...hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in the stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...
This year, though, the violins have stopped. The team has tried to drown whatever memories of last year's misfortune with hard summer training and a rugged pre-season workout regimen...
...them. If Starr determines the Clintons did something wrong, he'll be tarred for partisanship. If he exonerates them, the Administration will crow that even a conservative Republican found the Clintons innocent. "That sounds sensible," says a Republican Senator, "but if Starr slams Clinton, we think the facts will drown out the cries of foul." The Democrats apparently agree. Despite insisting the Clintons are clean -- and thus shouldn't sweat any inquiry -- a growing Democratic chorus is clamoring for Starr's resignation. So are several major media outlets, including the New York Times, which last week concluded that Starr...