Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Sukhumi should be basking in the special autumnal softness that those who live along the Black Sea call the velvet season, the walls of Shevardnadze's headquarters in the city's only building with electricity reverberate day and night from shells that land 50 ft. from his office. So ) close has the fighting come that the Georgian leader's American-trained guards have at least once flung their bodies over him in protection as missiles slammed into nearby buildings...
...coincide with the show's. Women are the core audience for musicals; without her, Kiss would be virtually all male. Moreover, her presence affords mainstream heterosexuals a comfortable entry into a violent and homoerotic world. Above all, her face, thrusting body and eerily insinuating voice -- a dagger wrapped in velvet -- keep Spider Woman vivid in memory, making it an event rather than just a show. This may not be Rivera's showiest role, but it is one in which she seems irreplaceable...
...shooting started, his travelogue of Baghdad ("unusually ugly lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated Kuwait City, he tracks through apartments fouled by soldiers' dung. Back in postwar Baghdad: bullyboys, profiteers and "the total degradation of a people...
Senator James Exon got the velvet treatment last week, when the White House began to worry that the tightfisted Nebraska Democrat might not back the $5.7 billion extension of unemployment benefits that is the first step in Clinton's economic-stimulus plan. Clinton wanted the votes of all 57 Democratic Senators, and Exon, who had made it known in recent weeks that Clinton's economic plan cut too little from federal spending, was withholding support...
...Fields of Gold to the insouciant rocker She's Too Good for Me, the lyrics wring pathos and irony from the misfortunes of unlucky lovers. Yet Sting's manners are too refined to let the suffering spoil the lush settings; the shackles in this emotional dungeon are lined with velvet. In Seven Days, pizzicato strings thrum a decorous, mocking waltz as a man muses over various ways to deal with a romantic rival. In the darkly cynical Love Is Stronger than Justice, a man kills his brothers to avoid sharing the affections of a beautiful senorita. "I look forward...