Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Bahraini was expressing a point of view echoed elsewhere in the Arab world. As war in the gulf looks ever more probable, the uneasiness and frustration of ordinary citizens are beginning to bubble over. The looming prospect of battle has sobered some of the more exuberant supporters of Saddam Hussein's bold defiance of the West, yet in certain quarters -- especially in Jordan, Yemen, the Sudan and the Maghreb -- his following remains strong...
...does not help Washington's cause that Desert Shield aims to secure and restore monarchies that many Arabs consider anachronistic. Even in the gulf states, where the vast majority of citizens are grateful for protection from Saddam's hordes, there is some bitterness on this point. "What does the West think?" asks a retired Omani municipal worker living in Bahrain. "That we want to be servants to these corrupt ruling families forever...
...their real and perhaps not conscious motivations is a subject of much debate. Some anthropologists postulate a ) murderous instinct, almost unique among living species, in human males. Others discern a materialistic motive behind every fray: a need for slaves, grazing land or even human flesh to eat. Still others point to the similarities between war and other male pastimes -- the hunt and outdoor sports -- and suggest that it is boredom, ultimately, that stirs men to fight...
LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...
...ashen-faced Benazir Bhutto sat in the judge's chambers, hundreds of her supporters last week ransacked the courtroom in Lahore, where she was about to go on trial for corruption and abuse of power. Dozens of people, including police, were hurt during the two-hour riot; at one point, Bhutto was pulled into the crowd and collapsed...