Word: flocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Keenan is hilarious as the highbrowed, effeminate sonneteer. And David Cort steals his brief scenes as Acaste, one in the flock of Celimene's suitors. Yet the evening remains unsatisfying...
Predicted a Western diplomat in Kenya: "It's the end." Indeed, Amin was facing his worst crisis yet. His Soviet-supplied military machine, which once boasted 20,000 troops and a flock of MiG fighters, was falling apart under a plodding but determined advance by a mere 4,000 Tanzanian troops and a miscellaneous collection of Ugandan exiles. Since early February, this force had been moving north from the border that Amin barged across last fall in an effort to buck up his tough-guy image by seizing a piece of Tanzanian territory. For weeks Amin's regime...
Planners also hope higher faculty salaries will make academic jobs more attractive to graduating students who now flock to lucrative professional jobs. The fund drive will "specifically provide" for increased funding of junior faculty positions, says Alfred M. Gibbens, director of development...
...home life. One driver who has been married five times explains, "You get in the truck and leave, and they [the wives] see something they like better at home. But if you worry about that, you can't do your job." On the other hand, prostitutes flock around truck stops. Some drivers complain that Transport City harasses the women traveling with truckers. But the owners say they are just trying to protect the drivers. Like rock music and politics, trucking has its groupies, young girls who stand outside places like Transport City waiting for a hitch...
...Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend the twilight hours at Captain Tony's bar, where Tony Tarracino holds court for his hirsute flock. The more elite swig Key lime daiquiris on the deck of the Beach Club bar at the nearby Pier House hotel. Down the street, at the Monster, the classy gay hangout, purple-shirted young men drink amid the rooftop's tropical foliage...