Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teenagers, retirees and women of all ages. Most are using the vehicles to explore the well-paved and not-so-wide-open spaces of the nation's cities and suburbs. "They're easy to spot in a parking lot," notes Phoebe Latimer, 27, an Albuquerque Wrangler owner, "because they sit above everything else...
...sharp smell of burning leaves in the air, I got to thinking what a hard job you've taken on. "My people aren't paradise people," you say. You imagine them arriving in heaven and somebody saying "No, thank you, we can't stay for eternity, we'll just sit and have a few minutes of bliss with you and then we have to get back...
Down the stairs into the dark, smoky, vaguely Spanish atmosphere of Cafe Pamplona. It is crowded. The small, round tables are filled with eclectic groupings--several European-looking men sit alone, smoking and staring reflectively. Their coffee cups are perched on stacks of papers. I imagine the manuscript of their latest play, or the translation of a Marguerite Duras novel...
...regular students sit in classes and painfully grind their teeth in frustration, the B.S.O.H. has virtually taken over the humanities classes. Varied attempts have been made to "deprogram" B.S.O.H members in order to make classes safe again for education--everything from hefty fines for pseudo-intellectual statements to my personal favorite, decapitation. But nothing seems to work...
...faction leader, Toshio Komoto. The trio controls 231 votes, but who the candidate will be, Takeshita or Abe, remains a question. To the delight of Miyazawa, who is fishing for allies, the Abe-Takeshita alliance is rickety. As Abe puts it, "There is only one chair for us to sit in. We can't solve the problem with a round of golf, which I would surely...