Word: sassone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father of the modern Arab novel, Mahfouz is frequently compared with such 19th century social realists as Dickens and Balzac. In nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, he has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the "creation of a new Egyptian style" that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter...
...Olympic hockey team is handsomely endowed by five major sponsors (Miller beer, Sasson clothes, Isuzu Motors, Bristol-Myers and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee) plus gate and television receipts from its 65-game exhibition tour; one televised match with the Soviet All-Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid...
...green-painted garage, a carpet covers the grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...