Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They fear that creatures unknown to science are gestating in the sink of their slum flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...
Hours before the Santiago rally, the Pontiff visited Santiago's La Bandera slum, where Luisa Rivera, one of 600,000 people who gathered for the occasion, told him, "We want a dignified life without dictatorship." Replied John Paul: "Today has deeply affected my spirit." Earlier in the day the Pontiff had paid a 42-minute visit to Pinochet at La Moneda, the 182-year-old presidential palace. Details of the conversation were sparse, but a Vatican source said the Pope planned to urge Pinochet to forsake violence and allow democratic elections...
...first victim was Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, who was pulled out of his cab in the West Beirut slum of Ouzai by two carloads of pistol-wielding terrorists. Three days later, Alfred Schmidt, an engineer for Siemens, the giant West German electronics firm, was rousted from bed in his hotel room at gunpoint. He was led away wearing only his pajamas and a leather jacket. On Friday, two more men were kidnaped in downtown West Beirut. Police later said they were Lebanese Armenians, not West Germans as claimed earlier by the kidnapers. Finally, on Saturday night, a well...
...liked Sinatra and thought him "amusing because he's a skinny little bastard and his bones kind of rattle together." But the stories Kelley has assembled are too numerous and grubby to be passed off as the forgivable sins of an amusing scamp, or of a tough-but-decent slum kid who made good. During the 1968 filming of Lady in Cement, according to Producer's Assistant Michael Viner, a prostitute complained that Sinatra had asked her to stay for breakfast after an all-night party, and then used a knife and fork to eat an order...
Shanties of corrugated steel and wood collapsed in nearby slum areas, but wealthy neighborhoods in the hills appeared not to have suffered damage...