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...symbolic heart, the Kuwaitis held their own through a two-hour artillery barrage. During the battle, the Emir's younger brother Fahd was killed. The Iraqi force assigned to secure the oil rigs off Kuwait's shores saw the most action. Kuwaiti troops and missile boats managed to sink and burn an unknown number of Iraqi landing craft and escort ships. By early afternoon, however, nearly all Kuwait's guns had been silenced. In all, it is estimated that 200 Kuwaitis were killed in the assault. No figure for Iraqi casualties was available...
...date to a Christmas party, even shared her glass of Perrier. But she didn't mean it, calling Andy the next day to complain about his bringing a gossip columnist to real people's parties. Really. At least this time he didn't throw up in the sink, the way he did when Andy was with him at Halston...
BOSTON--Rising tensions in the Middle East could further sink the New England economy, as motorists feel the pinch at gasoline pumps and manufacturers watch oil prices climb, experts said yesterday...
...overnight but in the course of a hundred tuna casseroles served every Friday. No one is immune from dissatisfaction and its companion, desire, which can be tamped down but comes back unannounced. "You might find it when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate for a baby's lunch." It hits Nora's neighbor Donna Durgin one day when she is "wounded by the kindness" of the Sears repairman, who doesn't charge her for fixing the washer because he can tell she really...
Reddin's play, at the La Jolla Playhouse, is much the more complicated of the two -- and certainly the wackier. Instead of a naturalistic kitchen-sink drama, this is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama-cum-farce, featuring fantasy sequences, flashbacks, ghosts, tall tales, quoted swatches of e.e. cummings verse and repeated incursions into a contemporary setting by a bearded and costumed Calvin. He recites his writings on predestination and free will and inveighs, sounding suspiciously like a televangelist, against the iniquities of Pop culture. The "war" of the title is not an event but a metaphor. It refers...