Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After word of the secret agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. reached the sun-seared slums of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians streamed out of the teeming Shati refugee camp. They hung their red, black, white and green national flag on an impromptu stage and danced to the music of a small folk band. Suddenly a column of 200 toughs from the hard-line Islamic organization Hamas waded into the celebration, swinging chains and clubs. The melee wrecked the stage, the chairs, even the Palestinian flag, and injured at least 15 people...
...statement "We live in a happy age." Moreover, surprisingly quirky definitions were offered when the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...
Mills' convertible lurches into the punishing sun, and Missy wraps her mesmerizing body around Alex, who isn't strong enough to stand the light or the heat. When she goes scavenging for sex, either Alex or Mills is always the wrong man. Like Sartre's No Exit, this is a story of a trio in hell. In No Exit, "hell is other people"; here, hell is being stranded with this couple playing out their sad games. She smacks him around, dances in the nude, spits back his verbal abuse, rides him like an old horse. The two must have Alex...
Poor Californians. No sooner cashed out of Glendale and resettled in Sun Valley in new Pendleton shirts than they are generally eager to please, dig in, join the school board. But the natives often regard them as interlopers who force up property values, stretch emergency services and introduce alien notions. So many celebrities and other moneyed migrants have moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for instance, that some resident working people can no longer afford to live there and have to commute from the small towns of Driggs and Victor, Idaho, across the treacherous Teton Pass...
...were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that's kind and good...