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...true this tale was. And how initially refreshing. The gasoline lines in New York City indeed snake to the horizon. Even the natives may purchase gas only on an odd day here, an even there. Lo, how it heartened them to know that the inconvenienced diplomat was Salah Omar al-Ali, the ambassador from Iraq, he whose land has helped make oil dear as gold...
...Nicaragua, the center-right Broad Opposition Front and the business-oriented Supreme Council of Private Enterprise endorsed the Sandinistas' five-member provisional government. Panama's Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera welcomed three of its members to his capital with a military band, honor guard and government-arranged cheering throngs usually reserved for visiting heads of state. Following the OAS meeting, Peru broke off diplomatic relations with the Somoza regime; Brazil recalled its ambassador to Managua, announcing that relations with Nicaragua had been "suspended...
...John Wayne, the great American, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's quite a laugh, at least now it is. Calling John Wayne a great American says things about this country that are kind of hard to deal with. But who called him a great American? Omar Torrijos, the head of the Panamanian cocaine mafia, or Elizabeth Taylor, who testified on the Duke's behalf before Congress, looking as if she had eaten all the sweetmeats that doctors...
...PITTSBURGH--The Bucs should run away from the overrated Phillies. Their lineup is solid, and the Dave Parker-Omar Moreno-Bill Robinson outfield (with Milner, Lacy and Easler subbing) is awesome...
...Grateful Dead Movie. The odds are that everyone in the audience as well as everyone on the screen in this movie will be stoned--conditions perfect for the dose of excellent Dead concert footage that makes up the bulk of the movie. The initial animation sequence, featuring the Omar Khayyam skeleton-and-roses fellow, as well as other Dead album-cover regulars, is pretty impressive whether you're stoned or not. Afterwards, the music is presented unencumbered by the psychedelic claptrap groups like Led Zeppelin have thrown into their movies, or the self-consciousness of an "event" movie like...