Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true, as you note in your article on the attempt to make prison sentences more uniform ((LAW, April 27)), that a 10% increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation like last year's drug bill, which calls for stiffer sentencing, is factored in, the increase will be much larger. We simply cannot lock everybody up. Something has got to give. Congress must choose: either allocate many billions of dollars for new prisons, or use imprisonment only where necessary and make greater...
...woman who makes wallflower movies like The Heartbreak Kid and A New Leaf, whose fine individual qualities are overlooked by the great, noisy media bash of the age. Beatty is, of course, Beatty: a man in whose career- drama the actual movies he stars in are merely incidents. In a daringly speculative new book, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according...
...HANDS OF THE SIGN INTERPRETER were somehow more captivating than the actual words spoken by the women on the steps of Mem Church. Almost everyone there was familiar with the statistics being reeled off on rape and sexual harassment, but the signer gracefully translated them into emphatic motions. Her hands, with their eloquent, forceful silence, reminded me of why I had come...
...much nonfiction as fiction. Rybakov spent his childhood at 51 Arbat Street, where much of the action takes place. Many of the book's characters, including Stalin, his private secretary Alexander Poskrebyshev and Sergei Kirov, are real people. Most of the fictional characters are also patterned after actual Soviet citizens...
...those experiences were raw material for his novel, but it was only after the passage of many years -- and his 1960 "rehabilitation" -- that Rybakov could bring himself to attempt the actual writing. "I felt almost ashamed of what happened to me, because my sentence was brief and not very difficult alongside those who really suffered -- those who were shot or who spent 16 or 17 years in camps and came home with their health destroyed," Rybakov says. "And for many years I knew that because of my record, anything I wrote would never be published. But I did some writing...