Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HONG KONG by Jan Morris (Random House; $19.95). The indefatigable traveler and perceptive commentator conveys the sights, sounds, aromas and political significance of this thriving British colony, scheduled to be returned to China...
...year (partly because of Trump's own purchases). Trump says he will donate his estimated $1.5 million in royalties to United Cerebral Palsy, the American Cancer Society and AIDS research (his overall donations to charity run about $4 million a year). The success of the book has inspired Random House to offer a reported $3 million for a sequel...
...Random House; 359 pages...
...government stepped up security in the capital and three northern states, including the Sikh stronghold of Punjab. The cremated ashes of the executed were temporarily locked away. To little avail. In the Punjab village of Badowal, militant bands of Sikhs raided the homes of Hindu workers, apparently selected at random, killing at least ten by gunfire...
These TV sagas allow the audience to relive a sensational news story in a compact two- or four-hour chunk, with climaxes italicized and ambiguities excised. More subtly, they help viewers cope with tragic events by imparting the foreknowledge of God. Seemingly random occurrences of day-to-day life take on major significance with TV-movie hindsight. Early in Karen Carpenter, the teen-age Richard Carpenter grabs a pizza from his little sister. "You don't want to get fat, do you?" he taunts. Ah, if only they knew...