Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Will Saddam proceed shrewdly? Might he seize on Baker's visit to claim victory and retreat? Those who have dealt with him most closely in the past, his Arab neighbors, think not. "He believes in American weakness and sees everything through that prism," says an Egyptian official. For example, according to Administration officials, the Iraqis saw the firing of U.S. Air Force chief of staff Michael Dugan as an act that might precipitate a military coup against Bush. Similarly, Baghdad is reported to have understood the President's budget troubles, Republican setbacks in the midterm elections and even Margaret Thatcher...
HOME ALONE. First you have to get past the preposterous premise and spurious sentiment. Then you can enjoy the comic spectacle of an eight-year-old (Macaulay Culkin) fighting off a pair of inept burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) with the kind of sadistic inventiveness that used to enliven old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The final 20 minutes revive the almost lost art of fall-down- funny physical comedy...
...even as many of the school's antics celebrate traditions older than Caxton's printing press, Eton is, behind its ancient walls, steadily redressing itself for a more modern age. Perhaps the most hallowed tradition at Eton is a defiance of all expectations. And during the past 10 years, the school's headmaster, Eric Anderson, and its provost, Lord Charteris of Amisfield, have quietly set about revolutionizing the classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students...
...leaves painful memories of death and destruction. Yet, as George Santayana wrote, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Last week the clock ticked on for the opposing armies in the Persian Gulf, and some of the correspondents who covered Vietnam for TIME during the fighting there reflected on lessons from that conflict and how they might be applied to our coverage of the gulf crisis...
...same time, pop culture reaching America may become more diverse as the country becomes a crossroads for new entertainment. In the past year or so, Americans have been treated to such unlikely musical stars as the Gipsy Kings, a popular French-flamenco band, and the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir...