Word: pans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity has called on Libya to withdraw its troops so that an agreement worked out in 1979, calling for fresh elections supervised by a pan-African peacekeeping force, can be carried...
...those happy few--that band of brothers who undertake (or dream of undertaking) daring deeds while under the influence--Jimmy Buffett symbolizes the reluctance to grow up and accept traditional molds. Less a latter-day Peter Pan than a twentieth-century Southern version of Prokofiev, Buffett suffered through a lengthy period of obscurity. His peculiar style evolved out of Nashville origins, tempered and improved by Floridian and Caribbean overtones and directed by his own laid-back outlook on life. Even today, although "Margaritaville," probably his biggest hit to date, has been transformed by "The 101 Strings" into dentist-office muzak...
...life. Like Jess, the character he plays in the movie, Diamond put aside what was expected of him in favor of what he hoped for. He dropped out of pre-med at New York University, spent some time as a staff writer for an assortment of Tin Pan Alley companies, then finally rented himself a storage room with a piano and a pay phone and set out to write on his own. He had three hit singles in 1966, one of which, Cherry, Cherry is echoed in The Jazz Singer's own insidiously catchy You Baby. Diamond says...
Just 2½ years ago, she was Lisa Halaby, daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman...
...when Mozart, "the obscene boy," appears with the music of heaven, sublimely, effortlessly at his fingertips. And what a Mozart! Impudent, abrasively egocentric, silly in behavior, foul of mouth, a wine-bibbing libertine. Tim Curry's Mozart is unforgettable, an imp of the perverse, a strangely vulnerable Pan on a goatish night...