Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Must a settlement in Kampuchea be preceded by a dissolution of the Khmer Rouge (the Communist element of anti-Vietnamese resistance...
...last few years, that all-important element of my morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...
...which lie below the bluster and Hollywood romance that make this novel entertaining. Texans were the violent Comanche and Mexican killers that Michener made his out to be. But most of the time (in between the occassional Indian raids, Mexican Wars, American Wars, and lynchings) Texans were tackling the element that formed them--the vast, wealthy space called Texas. The land theme, however, lacks entertainment value--aneedotes about rugged Texans replacing fence posts does not make good novel material. So Michener sacrifices real education on his subject for stereotyped adventure...
This film advertises itself as an "erotic masterpiece," and if you believe that, I got some real estate in Belfast to sell you. An artsy erotic movie should have some element of the human form artistically displayed somewhere in those crucial first 40 minutes. Instead, there are lots of sea coasts and flying birds. Jonathan Livingston Seagull will go into ecstasy, but humans are in for a hell of a disappointment...
...There is still an element of political interference," says Koocher. He belives much of the patronage and seniority-based promotion schemes are implemented by "traditional independents" and not CCA-endorsed officials, but still sees the problem as affecting the entire system...