Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between Mandalay and the "pagoda-studded plain of Pagan" lies a 27-hour boat trip down the Irrawaddy River. We had a choice between "cabin" and "deck" and for an extra dollar chose the cabin. Well, the deck looked like steerage, every square inch filled by a body or a basket of smelly goods. The cabin, however, was not much better. It consisted of three wooden bunks and a table, and we shared it with a wealthy Burmese family, their electrical appliances, and eight or nine monks with shaven heads and long orange robes...
...President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some of whom are still suspicious of the 55-year-old leader. Television monitors...
...more plausible concept than the eternal universe of Aristotle. But he also declared boldly that if his philosophical thinking had substantiated Aristotle's view, he would simply have reinterpreted the Bible accordingly. Maimonides treated the sacrificial rituals commanded by biblical law as accommodations that God made to the Hebrews' pagan background...
...three local aristocrats are very impressive, squatting over the toilet bowl, that is Gilbert's life. They are like three hidcous pagan idols Elliot's Swaby is a power-hungry manifestation of Blind Ambition, who gleefully leaps at every opportunity to torture Gilbert Griffiths' Allardyee is towering Gluttony, who constantly stuffs his face with chocolates, wafers, seal paines and even his beloved Betty And Normington's Lockwood is personified Snobbery, who looks and acts exactly like John Gielgud. At all times, these societal demi-gods keep their aristocratic buttocks firmly over the lid of Gilbert's private hell...
...Juan Star, to write features for the Albany Times-Union. He soon found himself walking a picket line as a member of the striking Newspaper Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...