Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's the place where Lincoln was assassinated 129 years ago. As we all know, Booth pumped fatal lead into Honest Abe and then dived to the stage for a dramatic exit...
That was the new government's first taste of what awaited it inside the palace, Haiti's seat of government. The ritzy residential floor, decorated by Michele Duvalier in the slickest French style of the late 1970s, had not been occupied since Aristide's quick exit in 1991 and was, according to a member of Aristide's kitchen cabinet, "unlivable" -- dusty and moldy and smelling faintly of sewage. The beautiful granite bathrooms had all been destroyed, their fixtures removed...
Amid the drama surrounding the junta leader's exit, few remarked on the yawning vacuum of police power he left behind. That absence only deepens the need for American involvement, despite White House protestations that the U.S. ! commitment is limited and temporary. From the Haitian capital to the remotest corners of the countryside, civil authority has melted away. Even with Aristide on the way home, U.S. soldiers were forced to immerse themselves in the minutiae of Haitian daily life...
...clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot with a sweeter aftertaste...
...several local residents are unhappy about the change. Some believe the closing of the streets and the additional traffic that will have to be rerouted onto Waterhouse St. could make it harder for them to park and exit, according to City Councillor William H. Walsh...