Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every ten minutes or so, the clatter of a Lebanese Army .50-cal. machine gun firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast and, as ever, Spam). The volleyball games and group jogs have been rare since the hostile fire turned intense late in the summer. Between duties, some soldiers kill stray scorpions and centipedes in the three-and four-man bunkers. When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer to the British peace-keeping troops, First Lieut. Lee Marlow of Nashville found...
...rare sign of hope for the fratricidal quagmire that is Lebanon. Representatives of the country's political and religious factions are scheduled to gather this week for the first meeting of the conference on national reconciliation that was called for in the Sept. 26 cease-fire agreement. Even so, there were indications that Lebanon's guns would not be silent for long. The squabbling groups apparently had not yet agreed on where to hold the meeting. More ominous, cease-fire No. 179 was being violated with more and more impunity...
...movie's virtues are rare ones these days: honesty, modesty and a respect for all its characters. Shirley's husband (Leo Rossi) may have a streak of envy that festers into malice, but he is portrayed sympathetically as a man incapable of understanding that his no-nonsense housewife could beat him at a man's game. Connie Kalitta, Shirley's lover once she hits the circuit, is a hell-raising womanizer, but in Beau Bridges' engaging performance one can see Connie as an endangered species in a game that TV is trying to streamline into...
...also rare, if not utterly absent, in the conjoining of the Carlyles and the Mills, although these marriages were fruitful in other respects. During the Carlyles' 45-year relationship, Jane Welsh indefatigably cosseted her historian husband, screening him from "tiresome visitors, hapless servants, bedbugs, maddening noises." At the same time, she managed to write thousands of witty and reflective letters to her husband and friends that count among the best in the English language...
...lion, Tolstoy a bear, Colette a cat. Anthologist Stephen Brook is a crow. For The Oxford Book of Dreams he has ranged over four millenniums and most of the dry surfaces of the globe in search of recorded visions. The result is a nest of glittering curiosities, some of rare value, others plucked from the dustbin of history, where they belonged. Moreover, although the collection offers hundreds of entries, it also has inexcusable gaps. The dreams of Pharaoh's servants are here, interpreted by Joseph, but they represent one-half of the biblical citations. Where is Jacob...