Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. No, it's not the ghost of John Harvard come back to urinate on his statue...it's Halloween...
Both lonely places are in some respects still locked in 1953 (the year when Fidel Castro launched his first rebel assault and when Kim Il Sung began building his ghost republic), and both are further hemmed in by their commitment to guerrilla leaders who really did help to free their people from foreign domination. Yet beneath those surface similarities, North Korea and Cuba are as different as Doctor Strangelove and Doctor Zhivago, as different as a made-to-order Stalinist dystopia where not a thought is out of place and an unruly Caribbean island that is the stuff of Marx...
...very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with the help of guides from China's Bureau of Relics. It is the ghost of magnificence; only a few shards of colored tile can still be found in the sweep of grassland. Not far away, Chinese industrialization crowds...
Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees fled from advancing Tutsi-led rebels, crossing the frontier into Zaire at a rate of up to 30,000 an hour. The rebels now control three-quarters of the country, including the capital of Kigali, a virtual ghost town without water, electricity or food. The rebels say they are willing to share power with their enemy, the ethnic Hutu majority, to form a new government because as much as half of Rwanda's Tutsi population has been massacred...
...Hate Hamlet had a catchy premise: a TV actor daring to play Hamlet is haunted by the boozy ghost of John Barrymore. The off-Broadway hit and soon- to-be movie Jeffrey is giddy buffoonery, infused with the pain of gay men's sexual yearning in the age of AIDS. His new The Naked Truth is a big step backward. Loosely based on the flap over the late Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic photos, it has nothing fresh to say about culture wars, Republican hypocrisy, women's self-imposed lack of liberation or any of its other thematic targets. Its best...