Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singular combat zone. Yet a provocative phrase cropped up in news reports: "Not since the end of the war in Viet Nam. . ." Some of the analogies were impressionistic and wrong: the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean are not Indochina. But some of the bench marks were plain, blunt facts. Not since Viet Nam, until Beirut, had so many U.S. servicemen been killed in a single day. Not since then, until Grenada, had U.S. servicemen launched a combat operation of such size. Not since then, until a Navy A-6 was shot down over Lebanon, had a U.S. fighter...
...visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs are derived from such disparate sources as bird song (the composer is a lifelong ornithologist and notated some of his avian themes at Assisi), plain chant and the whole-tone scale. The themes are treated with Messiaen's characteristic rhythmic complexity, but the effect nevertheless is one of almost childlike simplicity...
Kate's lover is just plain Jake. It is to him that much of Pitch Dark is addressed. The theme of exasperating love, of life with half a loaf, is a constant that puts the narrator's more transitory emotions in humorous perspective. Among them is a case of heebie-jeebies brought on by a side trip to Ireland. In a set piece that could be mistaken for a parody of Hitchcock, Kate makes her way in a balky rental car to a coastal castle...
THERE ARE SERIOUS flaws in the reasoning of both Howe and the Ford Foundation. First, the chronology is just plain wrong. Black African countries and movements were expressing a degree of opposition to Israeli policies long before oil politics became a factor. As far back as 1968, for example, Amilcar Cabral, an influential revolutionary from Guinea-Bisseau, had this...
Bohemianism did not attract him. He went to Paris in the late 1920s and found it "invaded by such a swarm of artists, writers, students, dilettanti, sightseers, debauchees and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen. In some quarters of the town the so-called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population . . ." He took a job as a dishwasher in a Paris hotel, a member of the working population 13 hours...