Word: ln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...
...ln our eyes, you are a true friend, I faithful to his principles, whose word is honor." That effusive welcome, delivered by Israeli President Yitzhak Navon last week, was reserved for a very special guest: French President François Mitterrand, the first West European leader to visit the Jewish state since former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's historic pilgrimage in 1973. Despite a few rocky moments, the trip demonstrated France's shift away from the pro-Arab policy set by President Charles de Gaulle in 1967. It was a significant example of Mitterrand's stated...
...moral and ethical disintegration of the American dream," and Grownups seems shackled to that thesis. For few explicable reasons, Jake and Louise crush each other in a rockslide of a marital spat that rivals the venom but not the wit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ln an explosive but faintly ludicrous finale, all the family pieties are blasted and blasphemed...
...quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful The Köln Concert, released in 1975, has sold more than 750,000 copies-a strong showing for a double album in any league, even rock...
...ln Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...