Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everywhere. When God commanded the prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh and order the city to repent, Jonah found the prospect so daunting that he tried to run away. God found him and sent him back. (Nineveh repented.) After KAL 007, one suspects that today even He would hesitate before dispatching Jonah on a similar mission to Moscow. -By Charles Krauthammer
...Barzini observes, "nobody wears black unless he has to, and the empire has gone the ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many...
...most poignant scene of the sexual abnormalcy is not in the Red Light District, where degenerates sing: "Whatever you dream of alone in bed. Come to us and we will make it real instead." Nor is it the scene in the Nineveh Hotel (remember Jonah's destination), where the dancing girls offer. "We lift our legs for your masculine inspection. You can admire us without correction..." The best scene does not take place until Alan Norman loses the innocent manner with which he has made his quest and makes love to the beautiful Miss Vipond, played by a shopwindow dummy...
...Step to work out. When Sen. Ted Kennedy spoke at the Democratic convention, he implored them to trust their original instincts and to continue using their God-given talents and intellects in search of ways to overcome the handicaps. But people thought that Jonah had caught the whale to Nineveh too late. Ronald Reagan had already come ashore, and he was teaching the Simple Plan...