Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appearance by a U.S. vice president is rare. U.S. officials said the purpose was to lend weight to U.S. arguments about the tragedy and emphasize the need to end the 8-year...
When the U.S. Government used a new antiterrorism law to attempt to shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization's United Nations observer mission last December, the U.N. was outraged. In a rare show of unity, the members, Israel excepted, voted that the U.S. action violated the headquarters agreement signed when the world body moved to New York City...
...good feeling ended in the '50s when, ironically, Hollywood got a liberal conscience and concentrated on making amends to blacks. Hispanic roles became rare, and even those tended toward gang lords and victims. Mexican-born Anthony Quinn went abroad to graduate from Frito Bandito roles to stardom in La Strada and Zorba the Greek. The signal film was West Side Story. It said Latins were no longer domesticated birds of colorful plumage; now they were a social problem, a political cause set to barrio rhythms. What kind of guarantee was that for box-office gold...
...when Walter Mondale edged Reagan by 303 votes in Iowa's Palo Alto County. So this fall the pressure is on in this sparsely populated high desert, where cows outnumber residents and crew cuts never went out of fashion. "I don't know whether Crook County has some rare substance in the air that causes people to think like the average voter," muses County Judge Dick Hoppes. Jokes Barber Jake Lewis: "If it's in the water, the bourbon probably kills...
...work demands a suspension of disbelief. One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! is a plausibly ribald bar story. In a little Irish village, Lord Kilgotten passes on, after demanding that the rare and valuable contents of his wine cellar be poured into his grave. The idea of such waste appalls the thirsty villagers, who ingeniously honor the letter of the will by voiding the vintage. A literary joke provides the spine of Long Division. Splitting up their family and their library, a divorcing couple vehemently argue about the allocation of each beloved novel, history and biography. Several...