Word: haven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain all week who was actually running the troubled paradise. The violence and unrest were a trauma for a country whose racial harmony had led Pope John Paul II last year to call Fiji a "symbol of hope for the world." Said Agricultural Minister Jo Nacola: "We haven't ever had scenes like that before in the history of our country...
DIED. Frederick A. Pottle, 89, emeritus professor of English at Yale University who wrote six books and edited 26 others from the diaries and papers of James Boswell, the 18th century Scottish gentleman and rakehell who gained immortality as Samuel Johnson's biographer; in New Haven, Conn. Pottle's 1950 edition of Boswell's London Journal sold more than 1 million copies and established his literary reputation as Boswell's Boswell. Noting his incompatibility with Boswell, Pottle once declared, "He was such a noisy, bouncy fellow, and I'm rather quiet and pensive...
...case of the Examiner, they have entered into joint operating agreements with their competitors, allowing both papers to save on production costs. But, admits Bennack, "it's no secret that we have had some significant problems in the newspaper field." Los Angeles is particularly tough. He says, "We haven't yet solved the riddle of how to participate in that vast market...
...strong emotions and extravagant gestures that once were associated with the word "dramatic." Somehow, a cheesy melodrama like Dietrich's Dishonoured or Bogart's Maltese Falcon seems truer to the human heart than any new work I've seen on a stage in years. The theater, always a comfortable haven for dry intellectuals, may well have hypertrophied to the point that it is just an expensive substitute for The David Letterman Show...
...from Fire Down Below (1957) -- "Armies have marched over me" -- seemed sadly appropriate. By the early '80s, Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed, and Yasmin, who has been active in raising funds for Alzheimer's research, was appointed her conservator. Hayworth was perhaps the best judge of her life. "I haven't had everything from life," she once remarked. "I've had too much...