Word: escapees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So long as Casino stays focused on the excesses--of language, of violence, of ambition--in the life-styles of the rich and infamous, it remains a smart, knowing, if often repetitive, spectacle. But in its last hour, as it concentrates more and more on Ginger's increasingly desperate and...
Readers who turn to books for escape from the dailiness of life will find little respite in Leverich's biography. He is a great one for minutiae--bills, appointments, schedules--as if by the sheer amassing of mundane detail he could arrest his notoriously flighty subject. The book is a...
AS BOSNIAN PEACE TALKS NEAR DAYTON ENTERED THEIR third week, much of the civility that had been evident in the summit's first days was gone. In its place, a kind of diplomatic cabin fever set in and provoked the delegates to carp about the character flaws of rival countries...
Arafat: Do you think this is the first time I am facing trouble? [Israeli General Ariel] Sharon was trying to kill me during the siege of Beirut. Did you forget that? Then there was the air raid against my residence in Tunisia. And the crash of my airplane in the...
What I am most afraid of is not that they will remember their own history, which I hope they do, but that their sense of history will become their entire identity as they focus on their own history and ignore the rest, or relegate the rest to a minor status...