Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...Salvador Papers...
...intelligence reports revealed that Reagan and Bush Administration officials had far more detailed knowledge than they admitted to Congress at the time about the role of right-wing military and civilian leaders in death- squad killings in El Salvador. Both Administrations worked with these leaders, some of whom are in the current governing party, in order to crush left-wing guerrillas...
...might even say, then, that the Salvador Dali painting hanging on Schacter's office wall serves more than an aesthetic purpose for this professor of psychology. The painting is a tribute to the "art" of memory--an art which colors all our lives...
Washington's continued willingness to negotiate with Haiti's military leaders stuns Aristide supporters. "Apparently," marvels Robert White, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and an unpaid adviser to Aristide, "nothing will shake the touching faith the Clinton Administration has in the Haitian military's bona fides...