Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just for the sake of causing trouble, having fun and making enemies, I can't let your recent articles about the prospective Women's Club go by without taking a swing at such an institution and its masculine parent, the men's final clubs...
...cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours, "for the sake of national unity." Ahdab insisted that he had "no desire to rule" and called upon Parliament to select a new President within seven days...
Front Man. The combination of more stalemate and more rebellion evidently was the last straw for the military. Sitting in his Beirut headquarters beneath a portrait of Franjieh, Ahdab told reporters the morning after his surprise television broadcast: "For God's sake, we have been patient for ten months, and if we had waited one more day, there would have been uncontrollable bloodshed." The choice of Ahdab as the military's front man was apparently carefully calculated by a group of Christian and Moslem officers to give the coup a nonreligious character. He is the highest-ranking Sunni...
...guts of Chassler's work aren't simple or literal at all--neither formal exploration for its own sake nor defiant nose-thumbing for its. Does "romantic minimalism" make any sense of a literal approach and non-literal content? How Chassler dances is nothing except straight-forward; what she dances is everything...
...apres-gala orgy, consecrated by custom, begins. Sloshing up the stairs, one of the producers of the event mutters to a crepe-dressed mannequin: "We're running out of champagne, for God's sake, where'd it all go to?" Blake, who has had just about all of the Pudding's hospitality he can hold, leaves, with a few companions. The kids are still waiting on the sidewalk across from the Pudding. It's 1 a.m. and a policeman is telling them to move on, go home, but they scatter, regroup and wait huddled in the circle of the streetlight...