Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joyous and admirably unedifying yes. Capote, who died in 1984 "of everything . . . of living," as Bandleader Artie Shaw said at his funeral, was always his own best character. He lived an outrageous life, mostly against society's grain, and invented gaudy lies to pad out the occasional dull spots (an early dust-jacket blurb had him dancing on a Mississippi riverboat). Author Clarke, a TIME contributor, sorts out the nonsense, the brilliance and the bitchiness of Capote's life in what is the liveliest and rowdiest literary biography in recent memory...
Almost simultaneously with the release in the Middle East, the quiet of a South Pacific dawn in Ouvea, New Caledonia, was broken by the dull thud of smoke bombs and the crackle of small-arms fire. Some 300 elite French troops and gendarmes had launched an operation to rescue 23 Frenchmen from a cave where they had been held by Melanesian separatists. In the 7 1/2-hour gun battle that ensued, two gendarmes and 19 militants died...
...since 1984, John Glenn once again zooms into orbit. Republicans are beating the bushes in quest of the Vice President's Vice President. The roster of G.O.P. names in play is as long as George Bush's resume. Speculation over the Veepstakes has often enlivened the last weeks before dull conventions, but never before have the guessing games been pursued with this much avidity while most voters still have spring fever...
...trick. You open stupendously-wrapped gigantic box after stupendously-wrapped less gigantic box expecting to find something wonderful each step of the way. But after opening countless stupendously-wrapped boxes, each small enough to fit into the last, you're left with a really obvious and dull present, like a pair of socks. Brown socks...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's production of The Ruling Class is something like receiving a dull gift in elaborate wrapping. While the individual layers of the production are top quality, the overall effect of the play, due mainly to an ovewhelmingly heavyhanded script, is downright annoying...