Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realm of domestic violence, scored to the haunting lilt of pop standards. His output embraces dozens of television plays, half a dozen screenplays and two novels. But the range of Potter's work is less impressive than its searing ferocity and compassion. His haunted characters dwell in the surreal land we all inhabit, as we float vagrantly from suffocating reality to liberating fantasy, from pessimism to possibility, from fear to hope -- and then back, always back again, when we realize that the conditional tense holds even more horror than the present. Ultimately a Potter protagonist is likely to realize, like...
...resolutions call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied land and guarantee the rights of all states in the region to have secure borders...
...second point urged that "occupied Palestinian land" be placed under temporary U.N. supervision, that peacekeeping forces be deployed and that Israeli troops withdraw. He did not say if he was referring to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel...
Pity the toy industry and its industrial-strength elves. Over the next three weeks parents and grandparents will part with some $5 billion in toy stores across the land. But for the second straight year, America's toymakers have < not brought off the Christmas miracle they once dreamed of: the one new blockbuster toy that every child must have...
Equally wary of the sensations of Saturday-morning television, parents are turning instead to the icons of their youth. "Parents are buying trains now instead of other electronic toys," notes Daniel Cooney, executive vice president of Lionel Trains. In 1959, Lionel was the biggest toymaker in the land. After years of languishing, the company was bought in 1986 by a Detroit real estate developer and avid collector; this year production and sales increased by 35%. The customers are "baby-boomer fathers who have spent 20 years building careers," says Cooney, "and now they are looking back at their childhood remembering...