Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject of history is one which remains generally stable from year to year. The facts rarely change, except to take new events and new historical perspectives into account...
...residents of Jenin themselves petitioned Arafat to stop any such move. "They didn't want to see their city turned into another prison, opened and closed according to Israel's wish," says Khatib. As long as the West Bank's future is still under negotiation, its residents remain subject to the indignities of the occupation: checkpoints, curfews, the presence of an alien army. What's more, the Israelis continue to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, making Palestinians doubt that the Israelis will ever relinquish meaningful control over the area...
...upcoming railroad trip through China on Chairman Mao's train -- and he acts like the teenage boy that he still resembles. He grins. His voice breaks. He tucks his elbows into his lap and rocks back and forth as if to contain his excitement. But press Gates on a subject he doesn't want to talk about-like the charges of anticompetitive, and possibly illegal, business practices that have been turning up lately, like ex-girlfriends at a wedding party -- and he is liable to throw a tantrum. "I challenge your facts!" he shouts when confronted with...
...Clint Eastwood's film version was doomed before it started, for the book's readers had played the movie version in their heads, cast the roles, lived the love scenes. Also, today's films have a sophisticated language for the depiction of violence but become tongue-tied when the subject is serious eroticism. Told from Francesca's point of view, the book runs its words over Robert's body as if they were the fingers or lips of a new lover. He is hard, an animal, physical and spiritual. Her orgasms are liberating, exhausting visits to a land where...
...devolves into a skittish travelogue that ends up in Canada. Still, Willis' aggrieved burliness is always persuasive, and red-meat lovers will have an agreeably volatile two hours of fantasy-if, that is, they can keep one word out of their minds: militia. A scary scenario on that subject is doubtless being drafted for next summer's macho blockbuster...