Word: strangerness
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Washington is no stranger to military action in the Caribbean. U.S. Marines intervened in Haiti in 1915 after increasing civil strife, and stayed until 1934 as an army of occupation. Marines landed in the neighboring Dominican Republic in 1965. In 1983 some 1,900 U.S. soldiers and a small Caribbean task force ousted a radical regime in Grenada. When former President Jean-Claude Duvalier was tottering last year, the U.S. provided the C-141 Starlifter cargo plane that flew the dictator and his family out of the country...
...listened to about 400 songs," Willner recalls. "She would wander around, listening all the time. Each weekend we would find ten songs we would want to record." They also found a common thread in all the material. "There are a lot of songs about being alienated, about being a stranger," Faithfull says, and she dipped back into her own past for one of the album's most memorable cuts, a spare and unsparing remake of the Stones' As Tears Go By. "I always had a resentment toward it," she admits. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started...
Corporal Danny Fudge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stopped for coffee in a Yukon fishing village one day last summer and proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge...
...that it wasn't a scream, it was a kettle whistle; and no one will be sure if there ever was a scream, until a body lies in evidence. How is the citizen-listener to react? Rush wildly through the corridors until the sound is unmistakable? Push open some stranger's door to confront some stranger's scream? Much courage is required for that. Much recklessness as well. The helplessness you feel in such situations is dizzying; and even when you act, someone in power can let you down. You could be wrong. Foolish. You could be sued...
...first Reagan-Gorbachev summit, in Geneva in 1985, authorities accredited more than 3000 reporters, more than three times the size of the largest previous press corps in a city that is no stranger to international meetings...