Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lengthy illustration. Spevlin employs all manner of props and partners (including a rather amiable snake) to slake her desires, but she pays for it all in the end. She is imprisoned in a windowless room (Sartre will surely be pleased to know that Damiano has dipped into No Exit). Her only companion is a jabbering paranoid who is too thoroughly spaced out to respond to her pleas and advances. Damiano's heavy moral is that Georgina will have to spend eternity in a frenzy of frustration. Not quite as bad an actress as one might expect, Georgina performs...
When it was time to go, she turned and beamed at the class. "Bonjour, ca va, au 'voir." She spoiled the dramatic exit, though, when she poked her head back in the door and grinned and waved. "So long, Crabby," she said...
...aerial warfare continued almost continuously since that time, through the entry and exit of American ground troops in Vietnam, through the terms of three American presidents, through countless rainy and dry seasons...
Civilians. The exit at Camp Alpha is marked with a sign that says, "Through these gates pass the world's best soldiers." Outside, crowded brown Army buses took the G.I.s on a four-minute ride to the waiting planes. One of these buses passed a disorganized column of 17-year-old Vietnamese recruits, marching from boredom to exhaustion. "You're on your own now, fellas!" one soldier yelled...
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, a leader of the exit-tax foes, bluntly told visiting Soviet Deputy Foreign Trade Minister V.S. Alkhimov in Washington last week that Moscow would not get M.F.N. until the exit tax was dropped. In the Senate, Jackson now has lined up 73 co-sponsors for his amendment. It was not just a Jewish issue, he said in a Senate speech, but "an American issue in this nation of immigrants. I would not be in this chamber today," he continued, "if Norway, the country of my parents' birth, had practiced the sort...