Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back to the river. It is the third such bust in as many days. As an ambulance takes the wounded man away, Laurel shakes his head. "I don't like it when the shooting starts," he says. "In the old days we just got poor campesinos from the interior with huaraches ((leather sandals)) on their feet. Now we are up against tough river rats. If I came across someone wearing huaraches these days, I think...
...passageway is used both as an exit from the dining hall and as a means for diners to access the smoking room during meals. Directly opposite the Union's main door, it is also used as the entrance to the interior of the hall during special functions. Before the gate was installed, the entrance was regularly blocked by a red velvet rope like those commonly found in movie theaters...
...naked body, keeps some of the shape of its wearer; the unconcern of a dancer scratching her back between practice sessions in The Dance Class, 1873-76; the tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape, 1868-69); a laundress's yawn; the stoned heaviness of an absinthe drinker's posture before the dull green phosphorescence of her glass; the exact port of a dandy's cane; the professional absorption of the petits rats of the ballet corps; the look...
...change of KGB chiefs, the leadership was reshuffled in the most populous of the country's 15 republics. Vitali Vorotnikov, 62, premier of the Russian Republic (population: 144 million), was kicked upstairs into the presidency, making way for Alexander Vlasov, 56, a Gorbachev protege, to succeed him. As Interior Minister of the U.S.S.R., Vlasov had overseen a massive clean-up of the corruption-riddled police force. Now, with changes under way in the KGB, Gorbachev must decide who will replace Vlasov...
...first half of the novel, in fact, centers on Eva's moving from job to job in an upwardly mobile search for a normal employer who will treat her humanely. Initially a slave to the minister of the interior, who requires her to shave him every morning while he sits on his velvet-covered toilet, Eva moves to the home of a Yugoslavian potter. She teaches her the secret of creating images out of Universal Matter--a conglomeration of bread dough, dental cement and magic...