Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surreal aspect about all this is that those people ready to die for exams after vacation are really fighting for the extra two or three weeks in September...
...sons are far away and growing increasingly remote; and he is back in Hollywood pursuing some familiar bad habits: "For the past few weeks, he had been getting by on alcohol and a ten- gram stash of cocaine and he had begun to feel as though he might die quite soon...
...Marcos' request to remain in the country. At first I was told he wanted to stay two more days, and I thought maybe he wanted to die in his own country. But when I found out that was not it, I said he had to go because the longer he stays in this country, the harder it will be for things to normalize...
...Shape of a Heart--one of Browne's most beautiful ballads--seems to balance off the weight of a lost affair against the kind of specific moral gravity that can come only from some deeper social commitment. Soldier of Plenty and the title track make glancing observations ("People die for the little things/ A little corn, a little beans") and ask some pointed questions: "I want to know who the men in the shadows are/ I want to hear somebody asking them why/ They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are/ But they're never...
...metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some of whom are still suspicious of the 55-year-old leader. Television monitors at the press center for foreign journalists repeatedly flashed anti-U.S. "news headlines." Read one: U.S. CHILDREN DIE OF CRUEL TREATMENT...