Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ibrahim Abdallah apparently has many friends in low places. Minutes after he was driven under heavy guard away from Paris police headquarters to the city's Sante prison, four other suspected terrorists were brought in. They arrived separately, at 15-minute intervals, crouched inside identical blue police vans with wire-mesh windows and police-car escorts. The four are reportedly acquainted with Abdallah, and their group is believed to have supplied him with weapons...
Reagan described the games from a room in Des Moines. An accomplice with a wire set hooked up to Wrigley Field handed him slips of paper after each pitch: "double," "strike, inside corner," "foul ball". It was Reagan's job--and particle of talent--to fill in the rest. Then, later that night, listeners tuned into Reagan's analysis of the day's events--events he had created in his own mind...
...found a perch on the best-seller lists with her children's book The Saga of Baby Divine. But what, these days, becomes a legend most? The one little item that eluded Bette Midler: movie stardom. Her galvanizing turn in The Rose, as a soulful thrush on the high wire of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll, earned the actress raves and an Oscar nomination and . . . precisely no film offers. Her next star role, in the black-and-blue comedy Jinxed (1982), provided the occasion for scuffles, snarky reviews and, for Midler, a nervous breakdown. Jinxed, indeed. It was three...
They say goodbye, and Ifan continues his walk down the path until he comes to a barbed-wire corral. There, a tan pony and a gray mule stand quietly. A heavenly silence seems to enfold the land. Ifan walks the corral, and the mule comes over to better observe this strange man. They stare at each other for several minutes, and then Ifan nods to the mule and walks on. Ifan, today, will be a solitary apparition in the dreamscape...
...ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during the 1984 campaign, to setting up a naval blockade to contain the Sandinistas. But why is it preferable so hugely to commit American resources? To station permanently American troops to serve as a trip wire? (That is how containment works in Europe: the principal function of American soldiers in forward positions is to die and thus bring the U.S. into any European war the Soviets might be tempted to start.) And if a blockade ever became necessary, the U.S. would risk confrontation not just with...