Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nightly Blackout. In contrast to gloom in Israel jubilation swept Arab cities. Everywhere Arab newspapers carried pictures of Israeli prisoners and the wreckage of vaunted Phantom jets. Al-Ahram Editor Hassanein Heikal quoted Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Vladimir Vinogradov as saying: "I have experienced sweet and bitter days, but this is the prime of my career in Egypt...
...sweet revenge for years of suffering humiliating gibes from Jews and others. Arabs had been mercilessly held up to contempt for their wretched showing in the Six-Day War, when their troops broke and ran from the advancing Israelis. The public scorn, humiliation-and self-contempt-rankled, leaving behind smoldering hatred for Israel and a lust for revenge. Among sensitive Arabs the public shame of their defeats was as bitter as the loss of territory. Pride looms large in the Arab psyche; its loss is an intolerable affront...
Browne is one of the most accomplished young songwriters in the country, but his arrangements are too sweet and self-contained to generate enough excitement to follow a boogie band. Only on one or two of his numbers, like "Rock Me On the Water" did his band generate much more than polite applause...
...this weren't a bad enough violation of the abrasive Park Street atmosphere which many of us loved, every twenty minutes the theme song of the MBTA comes on, sung in sweet cherubic voices: "The T can take you where you're going, Take the T to where you've never been..." This is really too much to endure. Crass American is in poor taste, but commercial propaganda is an unpardonable transgression...
...everything: Set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls...