Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diesel: "Little Rock, 1873" The fabric of jeans ads is usually interwoven with wit. But Italy's Diesel sews up the category by stitching outrageous, self-referential irony into the imagery of a spaghetti western. A filthy, overweight gunslinger swipes candy from a little girl, spits on a saloon floor and kicks a dog before shooting dead the Diesel-clad hero. Yes, nice guys do finish last...
...Jesus -- all thanks to the power of the Pope. After yanking the holiday in 1969, purportedly because it interfered with the sugar harvest, Fidel Castro reinstated it this year at the urging of Pope John Paul in advance of his visit Jan. 21-25. Has the leader of the Western Hemisphere's only semi-Stalinist state finally seen the light...
Briefing a small group of Western journalists last week, Chubais remarked almost casually that his whole government team, his family and his friends are under constant surveillance. Some are being offered "any money they like" to provide compromising material against him, he said. He refused to say on the record who was doing this, but a government official pointed to the MOST Group, Gusinsky's media and banking empire, headquartered just across the road from the government building where Chubais has his office. MOST's security organization, 600 strong and equipped with sophisticated technology, is headed by a former deputy...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Frederick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...
...image of a terrorist with all these gadgets, who could shoot his way out of trouble, had access to the apartments of young women all over Europe, and who, despite being the most wanted man in the world, appeared to be able to move in and out of Western countries at will." The anti-James Bond, in other words...