Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alfredo Stroessner, the dean of western despots after 34 years of iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...
Nonetheless, there are times when the sight of the iron-grey ceiling we used to call the sky, and the voice of the meteorologist calling for another thunderstorm, and the thought of pulling on sodden boots for a trek across campus conspire to make Harvard students wish that they had chosen to pursue their higher education in warmer climes. Suddenly, California earthquakes don't seem...
...raft consisted simply of two massive truck inner tubes encased in a frame of iron and wood, all covered with Styrofoam. The young men, who range in age from 20 to 30, had planned this trip for weeks. To train for the adventure, each went out daily on an inner tube to fish, both at night and by day. The men did not give their names. One says he is sure they will make it to Florida. A few years ago, they would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol...
...happened so quickly. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, owners and players agreed to bring in a mediator: Big Rock Candy Mountain Landis, grandson of commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing...
Shostakovich did not seek to achieve much more in the "jazz" medium, even after chinks in the Iron Curtain let the real music flow in. These pieces reflect, more than anything, the excitement of a young composer experimenting with something beguiling, mysterious and rather unknown to himself...