Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the old nursery rhyme. "Ring Around the Rosies"--with its hidden suggestions of the bubonic plague--these songs translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...
Basu, a democratically elected Marxist, remains remarkably optimistic. He has started building a modern port at Haldia, 45 miles south of Calcutta, which will also include an oil refinery and fertilizer factory. He hopes to build a ring of 17 small satellite cities outside Calcutta, each with self-supporting industry. But perhaps his greatest ground for optimism is that central Calcutta has finally stopped growing...
...serve as intermediaries in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. But Iran has refused all help. The door has now opened a crack. After a two-day visit to Tehran, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reported last week that Iran was ready to "break through the ring of isolation" and "begin a political dialogue with the West...
...former junta member and Ambassador to Washington, who was back home from self-imposed exile in the U.S. to run as an opposition candidate in the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for Nov. 4. But the jubilation was short-lived. No sooner had Cruz tossed his hat into the ring than he snatched it back again...
...power, his revolutionary government was determined to deny the existence of political "impurities" in Cuban society-by charging many dissidents with "moral impurity." Given the country's licentious reputation in the bad old days of the Batista regime, a program of sexual austerity had a plausible, even uplifting, ring. It would satisfy the puritanical strain that attends much leftist thought even as it appealed to traditional Cuban ideas of machismo, nourished in Castroites by their years of guerrilla warfare. As Writer René Ariza says, there is "some Castro...