Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waits is standing by the door of a rented, run-down hall eliciting toothy smiles from short white girls with big tits. It's New Year's Eve at "Mambo Beat '80," a bizarre multi-media "happening" in the heart of Hollywood. Various comedy acts (including a pair of blind Lebanese tourists) and an awful cover band known as Sal Mimeo & the Duplicators keep the three hundred partygoers hopping until midnight. Then veteran R&B performer Roy Brown takes the stage with his group of crusty black musicians. Waits moves from the entrance way to the dance floor. This...
Speaking on the eve of Rosh Hashana, when Frank--who is Jewish--could not respond, Battista accused the longtime state representative of trying to legalize prostitution and allow X-rated films on television...
...Deng's big show," said one Western diplomat on the eve of the congress. "He wants to unveil his team for the future, and he wants everybody there to see it happen." For Deng, indeed, the National People's Congress promised to be a climactic moment. Since late last year, the canny Vice Premier, who has survived numerous upheavals in and out of power for the past 30 years, has been bringing to the central government a team of tested provincial leaders, most of them in their early 60s. Deng's aim is to see power firmly...
...that the Government had available to it all the accusations before granting Trifa citizenship and reopened the case simply because of political pressure. He does not deny that Trifa made anti-Semitic statements, was a wholehearted supporter of the pro-Nazi Legionary movement, and gave a speech on the eve of the 1941 riot. But he denies that Trifa was a Legionary leader, belonged to the Iron Guard, or intended to cause a pogrom. His client, he says, was forced to choose between the Soviets and Nazis, and chose the latter, adopting anti-Semitism that was rampant at the time...
...eve of the Democratic Convention, the press stands united-not only on its editorial pages but also among the clamorings of political columnists -in its lack of enthusiasm for any presidential candidate. The result is to give the 1980 campaign a remarkably honest coverage, free of that bias that critics of the press so often lament. The only difficulty is that no one is providing much advice but simply mirroring the nation's own reluctance to come to judgment...