Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"The stereotype that it is second-rate is something that I haven't experienced," Goethals adds.
It's an oid-y world out there. Tabloids run factoids about humanoids on steroids. In a world gone synthetic, why should movies offer something as organic as a hero? Welcome, then, to the age of the heroid. In the old days, a - hero like Bogart had brains and guts...
Even the most blatant instances of influence peddling went virtually unnoticed. Paul Manafort, later a leading campaign adviser to President Bush, used his connections at HUD to ensure funding for an unwanted $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Not only was he a partner in the development...
Israel's intercommunal war is steadily escalating. As in Lebanon, vigilante violence strikes innocents engaged in the most prosaic activities. As a result, people on both sides of the conflict have come to feel that even their individual survival hangs in the balance. Those who contend that the recent Palestinian...
On the ground, the rhetoric of peace counts for nothing. Few Israelis believe that the vast distance traveled by Yasser Arafat toward a credible negotiating position is anything but a ruse. The P.L.O.'s apparent readiness to bless a peace initiative whose salient points are at best ambiguous is dismissed...