Word: remnants
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Furthermore, these groups seem reluctant to take issue with Iraq's claim to sovereignty over Kuwait. They hold a view similar to that of King Hussein of Jordan: that the legitimate claim of Kuwait to independence is a fossilized remnant of British imperialism, and that Iraq's claim cannot be brushed aside. However, this view also rests on the legacy of colonialism. Under the Ottoman Turks, Kuwait was supposedly to be administered from the Iraqi city of Basra. In actuality, none of the Ottoman attempts to extend control over Kuwait suceeded. The de facto independence of the Kuwaiti people...
...beautiful movie score by Maurice Jarre, a theme echoing the oldie on the jukebox, is the only romantic remnant amid the special effects and rubble. It makes us think that Molly and Sam are in love, and that, in the end, makes us endure the foolishness of their story...
Even as a loyal remnant of Barry's once formidable constituency pleaded for sympathy for the man, attention shifted to his sometime ally, Jesse Jackson. Jackson moved to Washington last summer amid calls for him to challenge his old civil rights compatriot. Yet three days before Barry's arrest, Jackson used Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to launch a national campaign for D.C. statehood -- a campaign that could put him into the U.S. Senate rather than the District Building...
...spot is a perfect refuge for a remnant of wilting flower children, including Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...