Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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February 9, night: I dreamed a Martian visited me. He said he was recalling all copies of TETRIS to the factory because of copyright violations. I was mad. I chopped him into pieces and hid them under the neat set of colored stacking blocks I just bought...
...They're all dead set on swing," said Clark Petschek, one of two sophomores who lobbied the society for a live rock band. "It's a tough call but I don't think they were impartial when they went into the voting...
...while generally supportive of his methods, Natale concedes that Walsh has made little progress in advancing the interests of small property owners. "If you want to measure effectiveness by results, we have no results," he says, explaining that the pro-rent control majority has set the tone for the new council...
With the election set for Sunday, the two candidates for the presidency of Nicaragua continue to campaign against type. Ortega, 44, the sometimes arrogant incumbent who has ruled since 1979, is hopscotching around the country with the fervor of a write-in contender. Gone are his military fatigues in favor of cowboy togs, complete with pointed boots. Chamorro, 60, a political neophyte who depicts herself as the best chance to save Nicaragua, placidly directs her campaign from her living room...
...green metal shields and nightsticks, block off Lenin Prospect. Knots of Tadzhik men watch with surly stares, and the soldiers, mostly young Russian conscripts, fidget. Four APCs with idling motors guard the front of the pale brown stucco central-committee building. The day before, mobs smashed its windows and set it on fire. At one side of the debris- littered street, a soldier nonchalantly washes the bloodstains off his shield in a puddle left by melted snow...