Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Pat Benatar, 29, Grammy Award-winning best female rock singer (Fire and Ice); and Neil Geraldo, 30, her lead guitar player and co-producer of her last album, Precious Time; she for the second time, he for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...
...Angolans have good reason for wanting to rid themselves of the Cubans. The impoverished Luanda government must pay the troops in precious hard currency. Moreover, the Cubans have not succeeded in stamping out the resistance of Jonas Savimbi, a South African-backed rebel whose forces roam free in much of southern Angola. Dos Santos evidently believes a Cuban withdrawal will bring in significant Western economic aid to exploit Angola's vast mineral resources. But any withdrawal of the Cubans would leave open to question the fate of Savimbi and his antigovernment forces. Says one U.S. analyst: "There are many...
...writers. Kafka spent his life floundering in a morass of guilt and self-hatred. Never quite convinced of his right to exist, he wore himself down with ceaseless self-dissection, suffocated in an office job the talent he knew he had, and often tried to sabotage his most precious relationships. Although he never formally committed suicide-a failure he gloated over with particular relish--he quite possibly had a hand in bringing on the tuberculosis that killed him at age 41. As for the writings that were not published during his lifetime--two unfinished novels, a large number of stories...
...words to Congress on Tuesday. As Lincoln no doubt realized and as Reagan cannot understand, the "history" so "inescapable" has largely been the path toward removing oppressive, less-fortunate features of the original American compact. And now, hiding behind a wall of abstract platitudes, Reagan intends to dismantle the precious safeguards that have been tortuously erected...
...posing platform for an art class. One student remarks, "You were a nine days' wonder, weren't you?" Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -ByJ.D.Reed