Word: saint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restrictions on new immigration. Too late. A new, alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen other working-class communities around Britain...
...they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...
...Washington, D.C., the following week, tells L.B.J.'s life from his halcyon days in Texas to the years after his turbulent presidency. Klugman admits he developed an "intense interest" in the politician by reading twelve L.B.J. biographies, but stops short of endorsing his political style: "He was no saint. I don't believe the end justifies the means...
After the Saint's Jo Ann Campbell was whistled for a hook at 14:49 the Crimson power play sprung into action. Defenseman Sue Newell, filling in for Landry on right wing for the man-up unit, fed left blue-liner Megan Berthold, who fired the puck on net En route, center Kathy Carroll tipped the biscuit past Clements and into the twines...
...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...