Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the Prokofiev of Love for Three Oranges. Russlan is a delicious fairy tale scored with lightness and quick invention. The orchestration confirms accounts of Glinka's thorough knowledge of Mozart and Rossini. His inclusion of Russian folk music, Turkish airs, even the whole-tone scale from the Orient (more than half a century before Debussy) suggests that he was exceptionally curious and open-minded...
...challenge that faces America in the Middle East as you begin your third century, and we dedicate our effort to work with you and all the peace-loving nations to make this hope a reality. We have taken together the initial successful steps to break the deadlock and to orient our efforts toward this aim. Now we have ahead of us a great challenge of working together to build up the foundation and the edifice of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East...
...peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect anti-Syrian. But An-Nahar, Lebanon's most prestigious newspaper, and its French-language sister daily, L'Orient-Le Jour, were also closed. Said An-Nahar Editor Michel Abu Jaudeh: "It would appear that what is in store is more ominous than what has already happened...
...battles, arrests and deaths are stages on the main line of the "Orient Express"-the lethal route from Asia's opium-rich Golden Triangle (the intersection of Burma, Laos and Thailand) to Amsterdam, distribution center for Europe's booming dope market...
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express...