Word: endless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARILYN: NORMA JEANE, which is half Steinem's text and half photographs by George Barris, is both an earnest revisionist history and a coffee-table decoration wrapped in one glossy volume. Steinem attempts to debunk the endless, and accumulating, Marilyn myths and cast Monroe in a role more realistic than diamond-digger Lorelei Lee could ever...
...Blue Hawaii, one in an endless strip of girlie bars, business is good, even though it's early afternoon. Every few minutes the girls dancing on the bar take over for the girls hustling drinks. Six pesos--roughly 30 American cents--buys the audience of businessmen, sailors and tourists large mugs of beer; drinks for the girls cost 40 pesos. For 200 they will let you take them upstairs...
...SIEGE: THE SAGA OF ISRAEL AND ZIONISM by Conor Cruise O'Brien. The diplomat and journalist gives an informed and balanced account of the long and seemingly endless tragedy of Middle East politics...
...hours were expanded after newspapers ran letters from disgruntled citizens complaining that those who merely wanted a glass of wine at family celebrations were forced to stand in endless lines with those stocking up on vodka. Soviet officials are apparently attempting to shift the country's drinking habits away from vodka and toward less potent beverages. The marketing strategy is debatable. According to Soviet health officials, the antidrinking measures are driving alcoholics to substitute such dangerous substances as methanol and cheap cologne for vodka...
...ENDLESS SERIES OF NEW RESTRICTIONS and repressions in South Africa should not numb the world to the significance of each new abuse. In the last two years the white government has progessively heightened restrictions on the press and has arrested thousands of opponents, but a new crackdown last week is a milestone in the Pretoria government's retrenchment against change. Last Thursday the government announced new press restrictions that destroyed any pretense of a free press, and on Friday the police carried out a self-proclaimed "swoop," rounding up not only opposition activists, but also reporters and even two Swiss...