Word: inhabitating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robin Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than...
...Israel gradually claimed one-third of the strip as "state land" and built 18 Israeli settlements for about 2,200 Jews. Life is far more cramped for Gaza's Palestinians: some 5,440 people occupy each square mile, a density that approaches Hong Kong's. The Jews inhabit a beach-front enclave that is fast growing into an Israeli Riviera. But more than 60% of Gaza's Arabs are refugees, most of whom live in squalid United Nations camps built 40 years ago. In the camp of Nuseirat, Sabha, a 50-year- old woman, finds only despair. "There...
Professors in subjects related to India saidrecently they have heard indications thatadministrators are considering estblishing anIndian Studies research center. Harvard mustimprove its academic range, they said, because itsfine collection of Indian books is going to wasteand the nearly 1 billion people who inhabit thesubcontinent make it a crucial region that iscurrently under-explored...
...focus on one's personal life will have a "chilling effect on people who want to enter public life," said State Sen. Thomas P. White (D-Worchester). "It will inhabit the performance and the ability for us to do our duties today," he said...
...Trust Me tend to view the women as bovine or witchy, though essential in either case. One husband "could not know the world unless a woman translated it for him." It is generally a small world that the couples and the uncoupled inhabit in these stories. Most are set in the New England exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book...