Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gemayel's task will be gravely complicated by Lebanon's crazy-quilt of political and religious factionalism. Under the terms of a national covenant worked out in 1943 when Lebanon became independent from France, the Christians are the dominant political force in Parliament, although the Muslims are now thought to outnumber them (no census has been taken since 1932). Moreover, both the Christians and the Muslims are divided into feuding sects. After the civil war ended in 1976, the Phalangists sought the support of the Israelis, who saw them as a strong and friendly force that could stabilize...
...WEST. The region is an economic patchwork quilt. Wyoming has an unemployment rate below 5%, California copes with 8.6%, and Oregon and Washington are suffering badly. Because the lumber trade has been crippled by construction woes, Oregon has an unemployment rate of 11.4%; Washington has 11.1%. By the middle of last month, 19,000 of the region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief...
...Beth Henley the person had not existed, Beth Henley the playwright might have invented her. Beneath that quiet exterior, there is the same flamboyance of spirit, the same belief that a crazy quilt of sweet dreams and common sense will somehow keep you warm through the night. Beth's father was a lawyer from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles...
...hearty was Linda Landry, 21, a student at Boston's Northeastern University. Said she of life in an unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long Johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel...
...heroine of William Mayne's The Patchwork Cat (Knopf; $8.95) is Tabby by name: stubborn by nature and depicted by Nicola Bayley. One morning, she is suddenly robbed of her favorite quilt by well-meaning owners. The snatchwork of the patchwork takes the disgruntled feline from garbage can to city dump, where she rescues the beloved bedding from rats and begins the long journey home. For several books, Bayley has been competing with other illustrators for the most lifelike cat postures and psychology. This year Tabby wins by a whisker...