Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Artie is forced to find friends elsewhere. Enter Angela, a brilliant, British beauty who is a classmate of his. "Of the twelve men who this stuffy room fill,/Two I'd like to screw, three I'd like to kill," she tells him in the note that serves as the overture to the relationship. Unfortunately, the line is the best thing about the affairs, if not the novel. The rest of the novel is primarily occupied with the two's inability to cope with themselves and each other...
About 3 p.m. Moscow time, while the Tu-154 with 76 passengers was over the Vologda region east of Leningrad, the hijackers sent a note to the cockpit, Tass said...
Izvestia, in its report on the hijack, quoted the note as saying: "Fly to a capitalist country [London]. Don't fly any lower. Otherwise we'll explode a bomb...
Upset by U.S. complaints, Mexican officials point out that in the same year in which Camarena was murdered, twelve members of a Mexican antidrug unit were killed, presumably by drug thugs. The Mexicans note that the estimated $130 billion spent annually on drugs by U.S. users could pay off the entire Mexican foreign debt. Complains Leonardo Ffrench, a press officer at the Mexican embassy in Washington: "It is deeply unfair and even ridiculous that some officials of a country like the United States, which has not been able to solve its own drug problems, keep blaming other countries with...
...called the magazine to protest. To her chagrin, she soon learned that Vieira herself was unruffled. Indeed, the 34-year-old journalist had happily posed for the photo. Says she: "I don't think they did me wrong." Nor was Vieira offended by Television Critic Tom Shales' accompanying mash note that begins by comparing her to a car ("luxurious appointments, high performance") and ends with an ecstatic gush ("Baby, baby, gimme some news!"). Her reaction: "Very sweet...