Word: slice
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According to the oft-repeated Andean scenario of disaster, an earthquake jars loose a gigantic slice of glacier and rock from a jagged peak. The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam. This, in turn, sets loose what the Peruvian peasants refer to with dread as a huayco-a wall of water, rock and mud that can bury entire villages in the valleys below. In 1797 a huayco killed 41,000 Ecuadorians and Peruvians; in 1939 another took the lives of 40,000 Chileans...
Sharp Enough to Slice...
Sklar: I think that kind of enapsulating of Beckett is garbage. Beckett's world is comprchensive and everyone I've read, really, except a tiny little article by Alain Robbe-Grillet, everyone tries to take a slice of the pic and say. "this is Beckett." Ruby Kahn interprets Endgame from a religious point of view, somebody clse says it takes place inside a womb, another says it's the beginning. I find myself enraged cach time I see one of these interpretations as a sort of umbrella that it has to go under...
...Europe's gamblingest nation, and legalized betting may be the country's largest industry. Britain's 16,000 betting shops, 1,200 casinos and 2,000 bingo clubs employ 100,000 people and account for an estimated yearly turnover of $5 billion. The government's slice is nearly $250 million...
...Fair Slice of the Pie. Rubenstein is assistant director of the Adlai Stevenson Institute and a consultant to the former National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He is aware that the U.S. has been a self-changing society. His conclusion is that Americans will continue to suffer violence until those in power can grant to others what they have in the past violently demanded for themselves: a fully fair slice of the pie or an independent share of the territory. The book, moreover, offers a sensible corrective to the myopic and apocalyptic view adopted by many Americans...