Word: foreshadowed
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...West and the rest of history. It is worth revisiting Jerusalem during this period not so much in celebration as in curiosity--to know the metropolis that shaped Jesus' last ministry and so wove itself into his great story, and to note, cautiously, the ways in which its vexations foreshadow those of Jerusalem today...
DIED. TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had choreographed a ballet in which he cast himself as a character named Polio and his incomparably elegant muse Le Clercq as a victim who becomes paralyzed...
...Somalia such a shooting would trigger a series of revenge attacks. Violent clashes have torn Mogadishu for years. But this killing sparked something different: a government commission of inquiry and surprising peace on the streets of Mogadishu. The city looked, to some eyes, almost civilized. And it may foreshadow a similar change in the country as a whole. "We want reconciliation with them," President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan says of the country's still violent warlords, "and to make peace in our country...
...Unlike most pop musicians who regarded a sullen look as a statement of cool, the Beatles were giddily exuberant and naturally humorous. They were huge fans of the Goons, a British comedy ensemble featuring Sellers and Spike Milligan, whose anarchic radio and TV shows were a '50s foreshadow of Monty Python. Just as they took to their record producer, George Martin, because he had produced comedy records with Sellers and the Goons, so they felt a kinship with Shenson. At this point, Shenson could have easily opted for a standard pop film formula. A sitcom writer could devise a fluffy...
Washington is a city in which commercial opportunities often foreshadow shifts in government policy. This doesn't mean restrictions on doing business with Libya will end immediately, and certainly not before the trial concludes. And the verdict, whether guilty or innocent, will not erase the scars that terrorism inflicted over Lockerbie. But U.S. corporations were late getting back into Vietnam, and they never had a chance in Cuba. To them, Libya is looking less like a terrorist nation and more like another potential customer in the great global economy...