Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people knew last week that they again faced the threat of war--brought on, they were told, by "a U.S. conspiracy." But there was no visible panic; the weary souls of Baghdad have been in this spot many times before. "These attacks are not strange to us. They are normal," said a city shopkeeper. "We know they hit military, not civilian targets," he added with a smile...
Mortimer describes better Felix's normal habitat when he is not being tried for murder, the circle of literary lions who lunch and speak and tour to promote their books. The formalities of the book-touring circuit seem deliciously droll when dripping from Mortimer's pen, and the occasional appearances of Sandra Tantamount, Felix's chief rival within his publishing house, furnish a comic garnish to a sometimes somber book. Felix's hapless adventures on tour and his constant, futile pursuit of his publicist illuminate Felix's personality even as they entertain...
Aside from that sacrilegious entreaty, there were no other interuptions from the attentive audience. Curiously, Stereolab are not exactly the superhuman figures the crowd makes them out to be. Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, the principals of Stereolab, are, in fact, decidedly normal. Indeed, there's something supremely understated about the group, something peculiarly subtle about them that not only begs for an answer, but apparently has the power to make even crowds docile...
...appear too cozy to domestic audiences, and he did not want Jiang simply to soak up the glory and prestige the ceremonies in Washington would provide him. The top man in a one-party dictatorship is never going to be America's cup of tea, and relations cannot be normal until the regime's brutality to its own people has ended. Even so, the U.S. relationship with China is too important to be held hostage to the human-rights issue alone. So Clinton's summit strategy was to drive home the point that even if disagreements are obvious, they should...
...first exposure to Gates, the Net philanthropist, came a few weeks ago, when the techies at Pathfinder noticed that the computers that serve up the Web versions of TIME, FORTUNE, PEOPLE, MONEY, etc. were behaving, well, drunkenly (my word). The sites were running even slower than is normal on the World Wide Wait. Indeed, some users were complaining that it took longer to download a page of TIME Daily than it did to have a pair of pants dry-cleaned...