Word: gately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rose in 1979 provoked one last fight with Russo, and Midler was on her own. She chose a jokey film noir script called Jinxed; she chose the director Don Siegel and her co-star Ken Wahl. The brass at United Artists, then tiptoeing through the rubble of Heaven's Gate, was turning to Midler to make decisions. And the creative team, vexed at her power, turned on her. There were shoving matches and walkouts. It was a sorry time. In retrospect, Midler notes, "I feel I've had my revenge. What goes around comes around." Translation: Siegel's and Wahl...
Merz, an Englishwoman who has lived in Africa much of her life, began the refuge two years ago. A sign at the front gate reads ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR RHINOS. She is now raising an orphaned baby rhino named Samia, almost two years old and up to about 500 lbs. Merz tenderly caresses her and calls her "my darling." Samia, feeling frolicsome, knocks Merz over into the mud. Merz rises, muddy and laughing, and prehistoric Samia knocks her over again. Once again, Merz laughs...
...ammunition for the P.L.O. Then on Friday, after the Amal had agreed to a cease-fire, an Iranian envoy riding in a small U.N. convoy of trucks and an ambulance was killed when the vehicles were halted by rocket and machine-gun fire just outside the camp's main gate. Finally, in the early hours of Saturday morning, three trucks carrying 15 tons of flour and two tons of powdered milk were escorted into the camp by representatives of Syria and Iran. While the arrival of the supplies hardly ended the miseries of the crowded enclave's residents...
...Cambridge City Council recently decided not to put a stop light or a stop sign at the crosswalk across Mass Ave in front of Johnston Gate. Instead, the council issued an order to put a sign telling motorists to yield to pedestrians at the crosswalk...
...There will be signs [at Johnston Gate] and hopefully at some of the other crosswalks saying pedestrians have the right of way," Wolf said...