Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVERY young art consumer worth knowing will tell you, there is no room for adventure in the modernist world. Action went out of style long ago. Smuggling, suspense, suitcases full of money, and tales of exotic islands don't make it anymore. It's kid's stuff, or worse, it's boor's stuff...
...disregards all the obliquities and subtle strategies of presentation, Port Tropique reveals itself as essentially a novel of the basic high-tension, high-adventure mode, not really much different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money he stands to make...
...slim 3-2 lead when first period buzzer sounded. Not until Norton took a feed from Vicki Palmer (who contributed a goal and three assists), eluded three Cardinal defenders, and rifled a low drive through Soule's pads at 9:49 of the second period, did Harvard show its stuff...
...enthusiastic support for the leftist rebels in neighboring El Salvador. Documents reportedly captured last month from leftist guerrillas indicate that weapons were offered to El Salvador by the Soviet Union, its East European satellites, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. And as one U.S. official puts it, "All that stuff either came from the moon or it came through Nicaragua." A State Department task force is trying to determine the extent to which the regime is officially involved in the arms traffic. If it concludes that the Sandinistas abetted the shipments, it will invoke the so-called terrorist clause...
...appeal does not hurt either. It never does, of course, but it turns out to be especially practical when performers are sent to melt hearts and open wallets at the local Lions Club, or to strut and sing their stuff in front of thousands of noisily skeptical fans before the start of a game at the Astrodome. "We'll get in any door we can," says Jane Weaver, 33, TOT managing director. "We have to be flexible enough to play in a high school gym as well as a 2,000-seat auditorium." That frequently exercised adaptability, says Baritone...