Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship with the staff of servants, weaving a world which for the first time draws the reader in. Likewise, after abandoning the car, she hitches to the airport with a truck driver and it is here that the book's most interesting dialogue takes place. These are the rare occasions when the reader catches Kate outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals a true gift of storytelling but she never carries through with them. They are false starts. For some frustrating reason, Adler refuses to leave Kate in one situation for too long...
...difficulties: the fitful 41-month war with archenemy Iraq, which continues to drain men and money; a ruling class already decimated, and always threatened, by tenacious urban guerrillas; 2 million refugees from the front and another 1.5 million from Afghanistan; and the stigma of international isolation. But during a rare ten-day visit to the country, which has remained virtually closed to Americans since 1979, a TIME reporter found that the Ayatullah's regime has managed, for the moment, to weather these challenges with surprising agility. It has settled nearly all its international debts, signed up a steady stream...
Parsons said the sign had been designed by freelance signmaker Richard Lipton of Cambridge, adding, "sign-writing of that quality is rare...
...rare sign of hope in a land that has been shattered by religious factionalism. In no small measure, the meeting was occasioned by the reversal of fortunes that the Christians have recently suffered. With President Amin Gemayel's government on the brink of collapse, the religious leaders expressed fear that Christians would once again repair to their isolated enclaves and make national reconciliation even more difficult. Said former Prime Minister Amin Hafez, a Muslim: "After nine years of continuous conflict between the two sides, there are young Christian men who have never seen a Muslim...
...surprising that many of the curators see the collections as akin to libraries; things are collected that might never be used but are simply preserved for certain classical traits. Like many libraries, the Museum has a rare books collection...