Word: hut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hometown of Tucson, Ariz., three employees of the local Pizza Hut where shot to death for no apparent reason as they closed up the store. Their bodies were discovered by the fiancé of 20-year-old Melissa L. Monitz, one of the victims. He was so inconsolable he could hardly deliver a statement to the police...
Russia's economic free fall has not been kind to MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. First, in the banking collapse that followed last August's devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume...
Russia's economic free fall has not been kind to Mikhail Gorbachev. First, in the banking collapse that followed last August's devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume...
...village, custom requires that we hold a krutu, a sort of formal palaver, with the granman--grand man, the paramount chief--and his council, before we wander about. We gather in his hut with the village leaders. He is a compact man, with a slightly sad expression--sort of a solemn Redd Foxx--and a tuft of white beard clinging to his chin. During the krutu, one never addresses him directly, nor does he speak directly to others. All questions and responses go through the bassias, high-ranking assistants who serve as intermediaries, a custom that prolongs the meetings...
...women run the place. A mother in her early 30s with bright gold earrings and bright gold teeth talks teasingly with Mittermeier. He asks to take her photograph. She poses, sitting on the steps of her hut. As Mittermeier raises his camera, she gets a saucy look in her eyes, drops her colorful blouse, which was tied at her neck, and shows herself in full, confident power. Everyone laughs, but everyone also gets the picture...