Word: inglis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
Back on shore other fishermen are already congratulating themselves on their escape. Will they go back to fish ing once the ice refreezes? Fishing maniacs aside, these are hard tunes in the Great Lakes states. A rescued fisherman says: "I need to fish to feed my family." This year has seen the revival of the Depression-era ice-fishing "township" called Smeltonia, near Boyne City, Mich. In Ohio, jobs are scarce, and after a year of recession and high unemployment, benefits are running...
...father designed his now famous dove for the Communist World Peace Congress (her name is Spanish for dove), Paloma, 31, is now recognized for her own international body. This year she was named to the International Best-Dressed list. But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum, she revealed more than an acquired palate. As she made her entrance, Paloma artfully arranged her dress to accent the family lines. Her décolletage caused almost as many tuts as a noted recent exhibition, but Paloma was unruffled. Huffed...
...does one conjure up the presence of something that is not really there, and, once that is done, how do we know the exact limits of image and reality? We only see the dog in the corner or the Vermeer on the wall by mentally reassembling and interpret ing the stupendous variety of light waves reflected from them, but these light waves are not a dog or a Vermeer. Can one make art by eliminating the middle term, and just having light...
...among pop stars in that he projects not a scintilla of sexual danger; but here he is required only to be a dutiful son, husband (twice), father and pop idol. With the help of Lucie Arnaz as Neil's girlfriend, and Laurence Olivier (who really must stop play ing Jews and Nazis) as his father, the movie plods along earnestly, endlessly - schmaltz in three-quarter time. Yet in its elephantine way, The Jazz Singer may attract much of the Rocky crowd, and for the same reasons. It recalls simpler days and sweeter movies; it does not condescend...