Word: maelstrom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel's preoccupation with its domestic maelstrom has momentarily turned attention away from another topic that has been consuming the country's passions and energy: the ever growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib discovered for himself last week just how absorbed Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in his own troubles. When the peripatetic troubleshooter showed up in Israel to discuss a new U.S. plan for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, Begin found only 45 minutes for him. Said an Israeli official: "Nothing of substance came up at the meeting...
...politics in this country, as well as in Europe. Rothman and Lichter customize the proposition by divining from their charts and graphs that this particular group of Jews subconsciously strove to destroy the essentially "Christian institutions which helped keep them on the "margin" of American society. Compounding this psychological maelstrom, say the authors, was a tendency toward authoritarianism within SDS. They depict the Jewish (male) activists as victims of savage domineering mother-weakling father complexes--a group of insecure intellectuals who saw "the oppressed" as an army which could be marshalled for a macho confrontation with established authority...
Sixteen hundred miles away from the maelstrom, investigators at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the past decade, there have been outbreaks of premature thelarche in the Middle East and Italy. In the Middle East, the condition was traced to milk from a cow that had been getting DES injections; in Italy it was linked to contaminated beef. But the cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly...
...whirlwind of information at once distant from the main theme of schooling and integrally wound up in this thing called Harvard Checks and money orders to Account No. 22270045 at New England Merchant Bank swirl in the maelstrom. Beware, you soccer players. "All payment must be made in U.S. dollars Foreign currency will not be accepted." Welcomed here MasterCard, Visa, traveler's checks and cash. The author seems to imply that tipping is not required, yet the idea is a vague one, drifting slowly into an early-morning must over the River Charles...
...refuses to record even her greatest triumphs. Jules will have none of this: he must live with his obsession, so he surreptitiously tapes one of her performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful bad guys-that involves Jules in a maelstrom of thriller twists. Two eccentric allies help this Candide in Hitchcockland: a roller-skating shoplifter from Viet Nam (Thuy An Luu) and a puzzle addict who chain-smokes Gitanes and practices Zen (Richard Bohringer...