Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within this underground culture, the ranking item on the list of necessary reforms is women's rights. Women are still forbidden to drive cars, travel alone or obtain exit visas unless accompanied by a "legal guardian," a male relative. Polygamy remains a thriving institution. But behind those closed doors, many Saudi women are spoiling for a showdown. "We will fight them," a young woman says of the religious conservatives, "and we will...
...Aberdeen." Horne's judgments are generous and fair, to winners and losers alike. Of the latter, undoubtedly the most pathetic were the thousands of harkis, Muslim soldiers who fought bravely, even desperately with the French armies. Unprotected by the 1962 Evian accords that ratified France's exit, they were disarmed by their comrades and turned over to the vengeful justice of the F.L.N. Some of the harkis were castrated and burned alive; others were forced to swallow their decorations and then buried in graves they had dug with their own hands. Moderation and reason, Horne grimly concludes, remain...
...plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about causes and relationships unasked, while often leading him to unfair judgments. Schorer tells of his exit from a stuffy, rural childhood overshadowed by his family's obsession with money without resorting to the cliches of his short stories...
...Nice to meet you, good to meet you," he replied, beckoning to a nearby security guard to escort the young admirers to the exit. "You know, from an early age, I didn't get no respect--no respect at all. Not from my parents, not from my dog; the mailman bit me; the teacher wouldn't put me in the corner, only because she kept me away from sharp objects; my mother...
...prove his charges and then fired Hongisto when he missed the deadline. Two hours later, Hongisto described in detail six abuses, among them an allegation that the mayor had obstructed his efforts to clean up the vice squad. Cried Kucinich: "He's concocting these stories so he can exit as a hero." Hongisto then proposed that he and the mayor take lie-detector tests. Kucinich refused. Said he: "I may be dealing with a fellow who is pathological. His own lie-detector results would not be conclusive...