Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have died as a result of conditions to which they are unaccustomed, according to a Boston Globe reporter who has written about the Kirghiz. The remote land where the Kirghiz now live offers them no means to support themselves Forced to leave behind their animals when they made the trek into Pakistan, the tribesmen have no other skills beyond herding. And even if they did, there is no work to be found in the region around Gilgit. The tribe must live on a meager subsidy paid by the Pakistani government, itself burdened with the responsibility of playing host...
...suspects, have already spoken up--against the tube. They're not consciously being duplicitous: Most intelligent people would probably agree that, on the whole, T.V. is "bad"--it screws up the kids and dulls everyone. But after damning T.V. at the dinner table, plenty of us still treat Star Trek or M*A*S*H as the crowning cultural achievements of the century. Too many critics engage in the effortless reductionism which labels all T.V. evil. But even in the truly crummy stuff, the medium has an attraction, one we are not likely to shake soon. So between the ceaseless...
...trek, the elephant who looks like an unbaked cookie sighs, "Truly it is not easy to bring up a family." And truly it is this hard wisdom that lies at the heart of Babar classics. In his poignant introduction, Maurice Sendak, doyen of children's literature, notes that the first three books in Babar's Anniversary Album (Random House; $12.95) were written by a young, dying father who supplied Babar and the other sensitive pachyderms with a philosophy as warm as their habitat. Jean de Brunhoff's son Laurent wrote the last three works with no falling...
...relationships, all that petty squabbling and navel-gazing. Only in the second half of the movie, when they have no scenes together, do we become emotionally involved in their relationship. The Soviets cancel Reed's travel plans, the Finns throw him in prison, and Bryant makes her long, surreptitious trek across snowy landscapes and gazes out longingly over icy lakes. We want to see that teary embrace so badly that by the time we get there Beatty's got us; he takes his time and actually decrescendoes before they spot each other. The scene is exquisite; not a proverbial...
...officially bade farewell. And though men's coach Frank McLaughlin insists that going back to the IAB will not hurt his team's morale, there will no doubt be more than a touch of disappointment in the hearts of the players and their fans as they start their long trek up the cold, hard stairs of the IAB on opening...