Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most basic of all, perhaps, are questions about who is making U.S. policy, whatever that policy is. State Department officials complain strongly that, in the words of one, "we are suddenly out of the information loop on a lot of stuff." One top diplomat talks of the "crazy kooks" in the Pentagon who in his view are putting too much emphasis on military moves. Any such kooks do not include the Joint Chiefs, who have made it plain that they are concerned about increased military involvement in the region. Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been widely...
...variety of funk sounds, which recall everything from Caribbean metal drums to a fart. Spaceman Jonzun, himself, is credited with the following: lead vocals, computer programming, electro drums, space bass, space-vocals, sound effects, synthesized keyboards, background vocals, string and brass synthesizers. And the three other band members do stuff as well...
Parts that are easily identifiable, such as missile tubes and ammunition, are generally shipped under inaccurate labels to countries where inspection is nonexistent or lax. Among the favored destinations: Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Singapore and The Netherlands. In Amsterdam, says an intelligence officer, "the stuff can arrive one night and be gone the next morning, and the boxes are never opened...
...Haver first found a copy of the original sound track, which he used as a guide when he began splicing in the bits and pieces of missing film that he found. The tale has many of the ingredients of a great detective story, but its penultimate scene is the stuff of pure Hollywood legend. On the night before he would have attended the first private screening of the restored movie earlier this year, Cukor died in his sleep...
...Margaret Mary Burns was a movie usher when she met Hayward, who eventually settled down doing publicity for a children's home. He brought 11-year-old Davey some Little Richard 45s and, two years later, had to shell out for a saxophone. "I thought, 'This is the pliable stuff that I can use,' " Bowie recalls. " 'This is my paint and canvas, and I think I can be quite good at it.' " His older half brother Terry had passed along a copy of On the Road, and Jack Kerouac's hipster visions flowed nicely into the first rushes of swinging...