Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sun, Stone, Sea and Tree...
Dawn. As the red sun edges over the horizon, a crowd of frail bodies gathers in the chill morning air outside the UNICEF feeding center in Bardera, a small town in southern Somalia. Each person clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through...
...equatorial sun is beating down hard now, and many of the 1,000 people still waiting in the exposed courtyard have propped aluminum pots on their heads in a vain attempt to shield themselves from the heat. Others have tried to squeeze into the pool of shade offered by a scraggly tree. A teary- eyed little girl, throat dry with thirst, slips by the guards and pleads for a jug of water. She is angrily rebuffed. Workers have grown accustomed to the desperate, and few have pity, any longer, to spare...
...generation gap could hardly be more clearly defined. TV's under-30s are, for the most part, shallow, fun loving, upbeat. They tend to live in communal groups and spend a lot of time in the sun. They are still young enough to be entranced with the idea of being on their own. One of the two bachelors who room together (while working at Patti LaBelle's nightclub) in Out All Night raves about their new apartment: "It's what we've always talked about. A place of our own, with no parents, no dorm directors -- just freedom...
...hair -- and I'm trying to get him to use some dye." For his part, the Tennessee Senator confided to a home-folks crowd in Memphis: "Tipper and I have had the wonderful experience of getting to know Hillary and Bill Clinton . . . If there is a subject under the sun that we haven't discussed, I don't know what it might...