Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supported Kabila since they began fighting together to unseat Mobutu at the end of 1996. Namibia, in support of Angola, has sent a small force to support Kabila. Zimbabwe's leader, Robert Mugabe, has sent 10,000 soldiers to Kabila's assistance. In return, Kabila has promised Zimbabwe a slice of Congo's economic pie: lucrative contracts with Congo's mining conglomerate and the protection of investments by Mugabe cronies...
Tonight, for dinner, don't go to Legal Seafoods. Take your parents to Tommy's. But don't go straight there. First, stop at the dining hall, show them the glistening, sauteed steak tips and then head over for a slice. After Mom and Dad guzzle down their grease-soaked nourishment, go back, to your poorly lit dorm room. Sit around in the gloom for a couple of hours discussing what to do with the rest of the evening. At around 10 o'clock, after "Nash Bridges" is over, hit the Grille. Buy Dad a pitcher...
Here's where it gets weird. I get an e-mail back telling me to go ahead. So I called AAHLRSA and adopted that big slice of Los Angeles I had been coveting. Bette was very excited. "Have you ever seen the 5? The 5 is such a pit." She advised me to drive on my highway often. "You always visit your mile, and you complain, 'I want more landscaping...
...paintings of the "same" scene, a courtyard in Delft, from 1658, featuring a brick archway with an inscribed tablet and a round window above it, and a little arbor to the right. Except that in the second version the arbor isn't an arbor but a shed; and the slice of street seen through the archway is different; and the pattern of paving on the ground is different too. It's like a child's puzzle: "What's wrong with the second picture?" Which bit of Delft is invented? The first or the second or (just as likely) both...
...Although few of us perhaps could say what a kestrel is--even though it is totally the coolest, supposedly able to hover Harrier-like in the air--we would do well to follow the Brit crits' lead: though not the best example, My Name Is Joe is another acceptable slice of Loach's British social realism...