Word: squate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THOUGH Willie's slurp were squashed into a shuffle and a whine. But Eddie's not an unlikeable guy; he's like an animated buffer zone. Eva, played with unself-conscious allure by Eszter Balint (formerly of the Hungarian Squat Theatre), is the film's discoverer of America. Her rare moments of enthusiasm are moments of anticipation: when she finally gets "there" (New York, Florida, Ohio) she basically discovers the meaning of disappointment. As four guide for the day, she points to a scene with an iron fence and a snowstorm and says, "Well, this is it. Eake Erie...
...Dover Beach, it might help to pause first at Arnold's. What must have been, in Arnold's time, an attractively hectic seaside resort and sailing port seems strangely lifeless now, in spite of the fact that Dover remains one of the largest passenger ports in the world. Huge, squat ferries chug efficiently and frequently between Dover and Calais. Travelers walk a few steps from a train to a boat and are off. The ease and speed with which a Channel crossing is now done may have deprived Dover of its 19th century character, except in places in the town...
...Squat, gray and fortress-like, the twelve-year-old U.S. embassy in Bogotá is designed to withstand the most withering of terrorist bomb attacks. The building was put to the test last week: a white Fiat, packed with 33 Ibs. of dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure...
Most Nicaraguans, however, remained calm. Despite the government's repeated alarms, residents of Managua made their way to work as usual on the city's overcrowded buses. Schoolchildren played outdoors, even gathering in clusters around the squat, forbidding tanks. Occasionally the civic mood was shattered by a sonic boom, which the government attributed to high-flying U.S. SR-71 spy planes violating Nicaraguan airspace. Despite the noisy interruptions, few Nicaraguans seemed concerned about the putative Yanqui invasion...
...elite groups, such as the boys' choir at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach once served as music director. State employees are expected to be atheists. Jobs in teaching, the courts, or the military are automatically out of bounds for believers. The historic Friedrichskirche, a squat brick church with pointed steeple that Frederick the Great built in Potsdam, seats 900 people, but no more than 150 parishioners attend Sunday services...