Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usually the spoiling of paradise comes more gently, and more gradually, at the hands of individuals. The trouble with paradise is that it is almost made to be lost: as fast as idyls seduce visitors, visitors reduce idyls. And as soon as a new last paradise has been found, so many people hurry to make claims on it that it becomes, almost instantly, a lost paradise. With crowds of strangers flocking together to escape the crowds, last year's lotus land becomes this year's tourist trap...
...stroll to Nirvana Tours, the Hotel Shangri-La or a host of other 50 cents-a-night flophouses and cappuccino houses. There, the locals are sure to remind him that the real paradise is that great American city across the sea, rich with Cadillacs and videos and fast-food joints. By now, even New York, least otherworldly of cities, lists in its phone books 27 Edens, nine Arcadias and almost 100 Paradises (including the Paradise Memorial Pet Crematory and Paradise Guard Dogs...
...Everybody expected a fast start out of the box," he said. "It's been difficult...
...read this book for a scholarly, in depth look at the appeals process, which Dershowitz directed and which gained a second trial for von Bulow? Come on, you want to read about the sleaze. You want to know about the big mansions in Newport, the drugs, the booze, the fast cars, the lifestyles of the rich and famous. What about Claus' many mistresses? What about those rumors that Sunny popped every pill in the book...
...pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because of it, the White House and the House of Representatives, which has been televised live on the C-SPAN cable network since 1979, seemed to be getting disproportionate attention. Minority Leader Robert Byrd warned mournfully that the Senate was fast becoming the "invisible half of Congress." Somewhat grudgingly, and only after nine days of floor debate, the Senators voted early this year to let the cameras in. Starting next week, the Senate will be televised live on C-SPAN--at least for a couple of months. In late July, after...