Word: strip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture...
Aruri said the guerrilla movement has also transformed the once profitable Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into a major economic burden and created real borders between Israel and the territories...
...could wind up looking like nonstop previews of coming attractions. (Like MTV, the Comedy Channel is acquiring most of its clips free, since producers assume they will help the movies and videos from which they are excerpted.) Not to mention the indignity of seeing classic films and TV shows strip-mined for their "funny" parts. Oh, well; comedy may be big business, but, as Steve Martin once noted, it isn't pretty...
...first, buildings along the new boundary afforded windows on the West. Many refugees leaped, some into fire nets, others to the pavement; more than a few died in the fall. After the regime bricked up the windows, the resourceful tunneled beneath the 20-ft. "death strip" and its mines and gun emplacements. The most daring efforts came from Wall jumpers, who confronted head on the "antifascist protective barrier," as the jargon of totalitarianism described the Wall. In their jagged sprints, dodging searchlight beams and bullets, they created a theater of longing where the value of freedom -- and the maleficence...
...government said it was dismantling internal barriers that for three decades formed a notorious "death strip" between the Berlin Wall and the city's sealed-off eastern sector...