Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The world has, or thought it had, become accustomed to change in Eastern Europe, where every week brings developments that would have seemed unbelievable a short while earlier. Nonetheless, the opening of the Wall caught it off guard. President George Bush, who summoned reporters into the Oval Office Thursday afternoon...
Gorbachev in fact may have done more than merely support the East German opening. It was no coincidence that Honecker resigned shortly after the Soviet President visited East Berlin, and that the pace of reform picked up sharply after Krenz returned from conferring with Gorbachev in Moscow two weeks ago...
IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Glenn Close and James Woods desperately want a child; Mary Stuart Masterson is about to have one. Director Jonathan Kaplan's comedy-drama finds sympathetic laughter in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come later.
THE STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in...
A similar battle has been taking place in Texas, which has the country's No. 2 textbook market. The state board of education drafted guidelines requiring positive teaching about evolution for the first time. But in March, Bible Belters won a last-minute insertion that in addition to evolution, science...