Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet. An odor catches Andy's attention -- hmmm, something's burning. The master of this Vermont farmhouse eases on over to the hearth, extracts Yellow Dog's tail from the cinders and gently stubs it out like a spent cigar. The pooch barely opens one glazed eye. This scene, briefer than a minute, is a vagrant moment of unforced drollery in Funny Farm's carnival of sylvan horrors...
...north, in Durban, a leading coastal resort, Mayor Henry Klotz was pondering his status as an outcast from President P.W. Botha's National Party. Last month Klotz balked when party colleagues on the city council reserved two of Durban's best beaches for whites only. The beaches were the scene of confrontations between blacks and whites last summer. After his refusal to endorse the segregation plan, Klotz was suspended for "acting disloyally and contrary to the interests" of the party. Declaring that he was "duty bound to act in the interests of all the citizens," the mayor resigned his membership...
...away yet closely following the same issue. He had been scheduled to take a trip to Asia after a NATO meeting in Brussels, but he went back to Washington instead. He kept his television set at the Pentagon tuned to the Cable News Network for its frequent on-the-scene reports from Moscow and conducted a number of conversations over a scrambler phone with Carlucci and National Security Adviser Colin Powell, who is an Army lieutenant general. Crowe was hoping that the Soviets would back down on SLCMs -- and worrying about the possibility that the U.S. side would give...
...American Scene...
Sweeney will bring his resume to the Boston Bruins this year. The senior has signed a three-year contract with Boston and will give the pro scene a shot...