Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sitting in the cushioned and carpeted library of the Nieman Foundation, surrounded by less restricted publications like The London Times and The Washington Post, Yoon recalls whispered threats, censored stories, and the tales of reporters who spent eight to ten years in jail for visiting China.
The play's conceit is that Remington has invited the audience to be his guests in his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1902. Remington is middleaged, but one can sniff gunpowder in his temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He...
The next ten years were spent in exile in England. At a Sussex boarding school he was taunted for his social lapses and called a liar by classmates who refused to believe his tales of Africa and the Middle East. All through Eton and Oxford, Thesiger dreamed of returning to...
In those days the Final Four of the NCAA tourney, the survivors of three frantic weeks of nationwide elimination rounds, were usually known as U.C.L.A. and the three Cinderellas. And almost without exception the Bruins, no fans of fairy tales, would not even give the Cinderellas a dance. So much...
At Alpha Camp the night before the election results were announced, a group of ZANLA guerrilla leaders and Rhodesian officers sat together on camp beds, sipping Rhodesian Burgundy from cracked coffee cups, trading jokes and war tales. Said Lieut. John Steele, the Rhodesian base commander: "This has not happened before...