Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quake killed 235 people and injured more than 1000 along the Adriatic coast of Southern Yugoslavia and Albania while destroying buildings along a 60-mile strip of coastline including the resort region of Montenegro...
President Tito, who had been vacationing at his residence in the Montenegro region at the time of the earthquake, returned to Belgrade yesterday after touring the disaster area...
...earthquake hit the relatively sparsely populated province of Montenegro...
Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he imposes anything that catches his fancy: tangos, hillbilly hymns, blues, echoes, jazz, gospel shouts, Puccini pastiches...
...this novel by Yugoslavia's most celebrated warrior-ideologue. Milovan Djilas wrote Under the Colors while serving a prison sentence for criticizing Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...