Word: golde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through empty nighttime streets, circling the illuminated monuments of Washington. In the back seat, a clean-cut naval officer and a dark-haired beauty stare at each other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile to end all smiles...
...austere in Kim's kingdom. Lawyers representing the creditor banks are already scouting for North Korean assets to seize, including reserves believed to be stashed in bank accounts in Switzerland, Austria, West Germany and elsewhere. There is speculation too that the creditors could try to intercept the shipments of gold, worth about $27 million each, that Pyongyang sells each month through the London bullion market. Juche, in other words, could encompass even harder times ahead...
...last week. Though the Chamber had made an offer of improved fringe benefits, it refused to discuss wage hikes above the 15%-to-23% range that it had unilaterally put into effect before the walkout began three weeks ago. After a perfunctory show of hands at the 31 affected gold and coal mines, the all-black National Union of Mineworkers rejected the offer...
...time the evening had ended, though, many were left wondering whether the production was anti-Nazi or anti-Semitic. Schoenberg's libretto makes an explicit extended centerpiece out of the episode of the Golden Calf: gold is collected and formed into an idol; a ritual slaughter of animals is followed by a sacrifice of Four Naked Virgins; there is an orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters...
...more than business as usual last week at the German border crossing point of Herleshausen when the gold-colored Mercedes-Benz and the red Audi parked within walking distance of the checkpoint. The mission: the exchange of convicted spies by East and West Germany. The swap was thought to be an attempt to create goodwill before East German Leader Erich Honecker visits Bonn next month...