Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a 25-minute horseback ride around his moated ranch outside the capital, Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people...
...English masse, festival mass, from Late Latin missa, eucharist, possibly deriving from phrases such as Itemissa est, "Go, it is the dismissal...
...week later, a three year-old local group called Spectrum Singers will hit a bit closer to the mark with William Byrd's "Hodie Christus Natus Est." (If you can't translate this one, anyone you hear practicing scales can probably help you out) Along with pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn, the Spectrum will also throw in a beautiful and often-performed Randall Thompson work called "Alleluia" (No translation problems here: The lyrics consist of one repeated word, and here's a hint--it's somewhere in the title...
...which Paul had made to commemorate a remark by Joanne "that seemed appropriate at the time." It says, "I will regulate my life. JWN." The sampler shows a lit light bulb and an exploding cannon: husband's view of wife's character. Since then Joanne has attended est sessions and resolved to stop "choosing to be in Paul's shadow" and to stop apologizing for being what she calls "a creative dilettante." Says she: "As I look back, I think what I really wanted was to have a life with no children, but I was raised...
...action proscribed. Meanwhile, Carol Randolph of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) anticipates no action by the NAB to organize a nationwide standard. Congress, however, is now considering a bill that calls for a uniform poll closing time across the country. If polls were shut at 10 p.m. EST in New York, they would close at 7 p.m. PST in California...