Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops and logistic support have been withdrawn. The full extent of South African assistance may never be known. Before the pullback, South Africans kept popping up in the strangest places, on the remotest roads. Last week it was different. 'You see,' quipped a UNITA guide on a walk through the railroad junction of Lumege, 'there are no white Angolans up here.' As it happened, if the 'white Angolans'-UNlTA's euphemism for the South Africans-had been around, Lumege might not have fallen the next...
...hotel has two parts--front of the house and back of the house. A university has two parts: Out there you walk around and see one part, but under the ground the tunnels, the mechanical parts, the food service, the kitchen, the steam waters--all the things that make the lights go on and the air conidtioning come out that you never see-that's the back of the house. And I took the attitude that if you really know the back of the house you can learn the front of the house...
...those nights when you walk out of the Boston Garden wondering why certain things had to happen the way they...
...walk-on part at Los Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away...
Simple Tastes. There are times when Berman and his piano seem inseparable extensions of each other-especially during the long hours preceding a recital. An amiable, easygoing sort who gets along mostly in French while on tour, Berman concedes that he is much too nervous to take a walk or go to a movie. "I have to be close to the piano, even if I am not playing it," he says. That includes having a piano in his dressing room wherever he goes. "I must know that I can run over the keys if I need...