Word: sauntering
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Ahmed's home, his parents are warm and gracious. Within minutes, several of the family have gathered-sisters, brothers-in-law and their children. Soldiers saunter in. The discussion starts out focusing on Ahmed's whereabouts, and soon splinters into everything, from the Syrians to the weather to abstract politics. An old soldier suggests: "People are better than governments." Farouk gets an idea where Ahmed might be, and the taxi is off again, passing a mosque with a charred black wall on which some child has painted a bright blue plane dropping bright blue bombs. Rubbish burning everywhere...
...occasionally, as the evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...
...couple strip naked and proceed to make love while Tom and Nick debate the merits of Tom's marriage to Baba. In the last act, Tom may win back his soul by guessing three cards Nick has plucked from a deck. As a pair of black men saunter by, Tom correctly names the two of spades...
Engineers and designers at the headquarters of Apple Computer Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., are accustomed to seeing a slender figure saunter past their offices wearing frayed jeans, suede boots and a cowboy shirt. The boyish-looking fellow with the stringy mustache is Steven Jobs, Apple's chairman of the board. At 26, Jobs heads a company that six years ago was located in a bedroom and garage of his parents' house, but this year it is expected to have sales of $600 million. Like so many new entrepreneurs, Jobs is a child of California's Silicon Valley...