Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paris currently pours about $140 million a year into Djibouti, but most of this aid is in the form of vastly inflated salaries or perks for French soldiers and civil servants. Fully 80% of that money is ultimately re-exported to European bank accounts. The territory's operating budget is a mere $25 million a year, and the French have never seen fit to provide a development budget. But they pay their own people extraordinarily well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti...
Even discounting the anti-Amin bias of the Kenyan press, Western diplomats in Africa were inclined to believe that there had been an attempt on his life. They also thought it probable that some form of vengeful slaughter was going on inside the country. Under Amin, after all, random killing has become a ghoulish national pastime...
...quite certain why careening through turns and careering down heart-stopping hills hold such a strong attraction for otherwise sane human beings. Some psychologists have suggested that riding a roller coaster is a form of rebellion against smother love and all its safety, a final plunge to freedom from childhood dependency. Others theorize latent death wishes or the need to act out and exorcise fears. For some, the motivation is simpler. Two years after he crossed the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh took a spin on the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the oldest roller coasters still in operation (it is celebrating...
...trial began with a Curcio lieutenant reading a manifesto that denounced the whole process as a "grotesque spectacle." Curcio himself pointed to the ten impassive black-robed defense attorneys and called them "crows in form and pigs in substance." When the trial reconvened after a four-day recess, he demanded to return to his cell, and the manacled prisoners clanked out of the courtroom...
...stage resurrection of Cole Porter has apparently begun. Some songs of his that have been heard rarely in public, or not at all, are being presented in concert form by an attractive company of three women and two men at off-Broadway's Circle Repertory Company...