Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident dramatized the uneasy relations between the U.S. and Israel as Washington presses the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon added a new element of tension to the situation when he declared last week in a newspaper interview that the Soviet Union and Israel should enter into negotiations. "Come, let us meet," Sharon was quoted by the newspaper Ma'ariv as saying to the Soviets. "[We] have something to talk about." The remark was nonsense, since the Soviet Union and Israel have very little to talk about at the moment. But as Sharon no doubt...
Wouk had already absorbed his first lesson in cinematic construction from the original scriptwriter, Jack Pulman. A key element in the novel was the ironic perspective of the apocryphal German General Von Roon, who narrated the historical passages. Pulman maintained that Von Roon's literary irony could not be preserved and that his insights ought to be dramatized in scenes showing world leaders in action. "It was a hell of a shock to me," says Wouk. But within a day Wouk had concluded that it was "a craftsmanlike stroke that cut to the heart of the matter...
...Detroit. A meaningful, common part of life in America's most troubled city has been irreparably lost. Strange to say, Hudson's for decades acted as the model. Detroit citizen, providing sincere, accessible, non-discriminatory service and courtesy. In a city so fractured, the loss of this unique cohesive element is utterly painful; fanfare-filled tributes to the grand store would have only drawn attention to a situation beyond repair...
...were trained to work against terrorists and spies from other countries. But then we were instructed to work against comrades within the Ministry of Defense. Every individual who was not in agreement with the politics of the Sandinista National Liberation Front was considered to be an excessively dangerous element. For example, people who had disagreed politically with the National Directorate [the nine-member body that oversees the ruling three-man junta] began to face trumped-up charges of theft, even murder...
...least one young player who started the Super Bowl was fired because of drugs; Linebacker Craig Puki talked of it publicly and has since come back with the St. Louis Cardinals. What element of the 49ers' story has to do with drugs? "Drugs are an element of every story today," Walsh says quietly, and he wonders if age and money haven't more to do with it than football. N.F.L. coaches are perplexed by the pervasive subject. Commissioner Pete Rozelle's longstanding line that professional football players have no greater drug problem than does society has been...