Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE A ONE-EYED CAT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE FRIEDLANDER 1956-1987, Seattle Art Museum. Surprising perspectives on everyday images -- street scenes, jazz musicians, empty motel rooms, public monuments -- by a modern American master. Through...
...Wall Street Journal editorializes that the real purpose of toppling Tower was "to cripple a President fresh from an electoral victory. To demonstrate that the real power lies in a PAC-elected Congress immune from effective voter control." And ultimately "to dismantle the presidency" no less. Of course, 87% of the members of Congress are also fresh from election. But this doesn't count, the argument goes, because Congress has "less turnover . . . than in the Supreme Soviet," as former President Reagan has complained. Only six House incumbents lost re-election bids last year, and more than 85% of current members...
...have experience in that. I faced a similar situation in Gaza as military commander there in 1971. It took me two months to decide what to do, to learn every street, every house, every citrus grove like I know the palm of my hand. I moved to Gaza and worked night and day for seven months to make it completely quiet. It stayed that way for 15 years. How did I do it? By making a very clear distinction between the terrorists acting against us or supporters of terror and the other people who did not participate, even if they...
Sing, written by Dean Pitchford and directed by Richard Baskin, could be called 42nd Street: Duh Motion Pitchuh. It carts all the cliches of a Broadway backstage story to a decrepit Brooklyn Central High and populates it with Sesame Street renegades. Each class puts on a musical skit, or "sing," with groups led by a black, a Greek, an Italian and a Jew -- the "rainbow coalition" that exists only in Hollywood musicals. Yes, the tough Italian stud (Peter Dobson) falls for the sweet Jewish girl (Jessica Steen). And, honest, when the star of her skit gets knocked unconscious, the stud...
...over Scotland, killing 259 people, including many U.S. citizens. Two months later, bookstores across the country received bomb threats for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. And last month Sharon Rogers, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, narrowly escaped being blown up on a San Diego street as she drove to work...