Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homework compare with Raisa's recent English lessons? Will Raisa's hair, which was formerly hennaed in the salon of Moscow's exclusive International Hotel, match the brilliance of Nancy's, which is touched up with Clairol's Moongold and Chestnut? Will the Soviet First Lady return to the gold-lame sandals she wore in London in 1984? Will the American First Lady shock the world by wearing red, her favorite color, in Red Square...
...flaws of the cinema to the indignities of sex. The first of a projected 20 volumes of Mark Twain's letters follows the literary apprentice -- at first still using his real name, Samuel Clemens -- as he flees Hannibal, Mo., to become a river pilot, then a journalist covering the gold-intoxicated frontiers of Nevada and California...
From mining country, Clemens writes his mother that the land is "fabulously rich in gold, silver, copper . . . thieves, murderers, desperadoes, ladies, children, lawyers, Christians, Indians, Chinamen . . . poets, preachers, and jackass rabbits." A sister receives more intimate intelligence: "I don't mind sleeping with female servants as long as I am a bachelor -- by no means -- but after I marry, that sort of thing will be 'played out,' you know...
...President agreed. Borrowing a phrase from the Winter Olympics, then under way in Calgary, he proclaimed that the U.S. should "go for the gold...
...uprising's leaders to close his souvenir shop on Bethlehem's main street and orders from the army to stay open. Most days his door is open, but he spends the hours sipping coffee in his deserted shop, while his two dozen employees slump behind counters of glittering gold, olive-wood crucifixes and brass trinkets. Business is down more than 50% since the intifadeh began, and Lama's income does not cover his monthly overhead. But he still pays his workers. "What can we do, let their families starve?" he asks...