Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
...last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
Japan is also growing more active on the diplomatic front. On a Middle East tour last week, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno became the first Japanese Cabinet minister to visit Israel; heavily dependent on oil imports, Japan had long snubbed Israel to keep favor with the Arab states. In early June the Japanese offered to mediate a Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea...
...Sputnik toothpaste, Soviet flags and T shirts commemorating the Russian Revolution. The Americans gave Oleg Kulinkin, who functions as mayor, a Xerox copier, the town's first, and a gas generator to power it. As the Alaskans headed toward the gravel runway for their return, the group's tour guide said, "I think you must come back. Soon is better than later...
...though small, it still threatened the unity of Catholicism. Weeks after becoming Pope in 1978, he granted Lefebvre's request for an audience (their only meeting) and repeatedly expressed his desire for peace. Lefebvre also seemed eager to heal the breach during his lifetime. After an extended fact-finding tour of Lefebvre's religious houses last year at the Pope's request, Canadian Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, a Vatican official highly sympathetic to traditionalists, sent John Paul a favorable report, typing it himself to keep the recommendations confidential. Lefebvre then put the pressure on, threatening for the first time to ensure...