Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crackle of gunfire around the Golden Temple sounded chillingly familiar. More than 600 people died in 1984 when Indian forces stormed the holy shrine and wiped out extremists demanding independence for Sikhs in Punjab. Last week paramilitary troops besieged an estimated 70 Sikh terrorists who were again turning the temple into a fortress. After a Sikh gunman shot at police, Indian security forces returned fire and surrounded the complex. Weeklong gun battles left more than 30 dead...
...Pleasure," with its lewd carvings and mottoes, that he built in the Marquesas. Tahitian myth was as literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight to the Marquesas was inspired by a wide reaction against Western cultural surfeit, against an industrial France fixated on money and "development." But the life he forged from his discontents, though not without moments of bathos, was deeply courageous. He tried what others in the Paris...
Meanwhile, searches continue for Spanishscholars to fill two more senior posts at Harvard.The department is seeking one scholar specializingin the Golden Age and one in Latin Americanstudies, Nykrog said...
...Harbor cities like San Francisco and New York once boasted intricate networks of ferries carrying thousands of passengers each day. Then came the Golden Gate Bridge and the Holland Tunnel and dozens of other highway links. By the mid-1950s, urban ferries were a vanishing species, victims of America's love affair with the automobile. But these days, with once gleaming bridges and tunnels clogged with traffic or closed for repair, ferries are making a comeback...
Despite the resurgence, few ferry services manage to make a profit. Golden Gate Bridge District, the largest ferry operator on San Francisco Bay, lost $2.8 million last year. New York's subsidized Staten Island Ferry, by far the nation's busiest, costs just 25 cents for a round trip (vs. $1 for a subway or bus ride) and sails along with a $26 million annual deficit. Nevertheless, several prospective services are being proposed by entrepreneurs. In San Diego two firms have proposed water-taxi services to shuttle conventioneers and tourists between the city's new waterfront convention center and hotels...