Word: provinciale
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In a sedate hotel dining room in Helsinki, she gives a writer a big, rowdy kiss, and orders not vodka but tea and a huge chunk of chocolate cake. She talks of a happy, privileged childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast...
When the Chatham County commission refused to let him place his tape recorder on its meeting table, Windsor raced home and fetched in his own little French provincial table and parked the tape recorder there. After that, the machine was allowed to rest on the commission's table.
Whatever their strength, the contras claim to have achieved a number of major, but unproved, triumphs over the past weeks, including the brief capture of some largely deserted northern and central Nicaraguan towns. They also say that they "control" (meaning, actually, that they enjoy freedom of movement in) an area...
To Didion, El Salvador is "less a 'story' than a true noche obscura. " The assessment is a bit melodramatic, yet her dark night is full of the sort of detail that Didion knows how to use so well: the beach towels at the San Salvador super market that...
Gum-nut, adj.: authentically Australian, provincial.