Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Square this summer, plays Bert Parks in a needle-sharp spoof of the Miss America pageant. The parody climaxes with the funky "Black Boys/White Boys," which addresses the sublime pleasures of interracial intercourse. Unfortunately, most of the narrative bits do not mesh as well with the musical portion of the show. Yazbeck and Clarks have let one aspect of the original production slip through their fingers, and that's the scanty story line designed to give the whole business some semblance of order...
...only in the memory. The colonel is not here. The desk is not here. Nor the men, nor the roof, nor the walls. Nothing remains on top of this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
...Growth of Government. Demands for inflation protection have led to a steady swelling of government spending. Since 1960, in the major industrial nations the portion of gross national product consumed by government has gone from 28% to 38%. Though taxes have risen sharply during that period, they have not kept up with spending. Virtually every country is running a record budget deficit...
...alleged Israel brutality in Lebanon, a large dosage of myth is mixed in with a small portion of fact. While the siege of Beirut can be deplored, the military did drop leaflets on the city for days prior to the encirclement warning civilians of the imminent danger and suggesting that they leave. Nor should it be overlooked that the PLO builds its military bases in areas with the highest concentration of civilians. Or that Arafat and Co. use schools and the United Nations-sponsored refugee camps as weapons depots and training camps for terrorists. As a PLO official once explained...
...last two years, Hubel has shifted his research away from the visual system. He now spends half his time studying, the sleep portion of the brain, he said...