Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashionable, wide-shouldered jackets, to his father's distress. "He would have me in the preppie look," says Vinh with disdain. Retorts Le Giau: "When I went to school we wore uniforms." Imelda Ortiz finds herself in a tug-of-war with her mother over American teens' signature apparel: tight jeans. "My mom says I look like a Solid Gold dancer and makes me take them off," complains Imelda. "She looks at the way some Anglo girls dress and says they don't have dominio propio (self- control...
...cool, cagey leader whose power base is his nation's 362,000-man armed forces, Assad has maintained his tight control through a finely honed sense of pragmatism that pursues whatever is in Syria's, and by extension Assad's, best interests. In the Beirut crisis, as it happens, Syria's interests coincided with America's. Both countries were anxious to end the hostage stalemate under terms that bolstered the position of Nabih Berri, the Amal militia leader who in effect hijacked the Americans from their original hijackers. For Assad, Berri and his Amal movement play a vital role...
...events led to a feeling of double recall: in 1970 he had helped cover the hijacking of four jetliners by Palestinian guerrillas, and during 1980-81, he reported on the hostage crisis in Tehran. Covering the Israeli role last week, Flamini found that normally informative sources had grown tight-lipped overnight. Said he: "One of the most talkative political centers in the world had suddenly fallen silent." In this unaccustomed atmosphere, Jerusalem Reporter Robert Slater drew on an unusual source. At one point Slater heard a matter-of-fact Israel Radio report that Israel and the U.S. were in close...
...tight security around him. One gets used to it. It puts restrictions on me and on people coming to see me. I think it's a temporary phase. One has to go through with...
...like I'll Remember You, furious on Seeing the Real You at Last and spooky on When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, one of those pacesetter Dylan songs in which romantic anguish kaleidoscopes into a sneak preview of Armageddon. The writing in the album is near peak. Tight Connection to My Heart is a playful bit of lovelorn apocrypha, a mood, once established, that turns sinister toward the end of the record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like one of those midnight Poe love poems, filled with grace notes that...