Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down south near the Namibian border is the other side of the war's legacy: a ^ state-of-the-art government air base bristling with the latest Soviet-built MiGs, tanks, radar, antiaircraft missiles and camouflaged bunkers. Angola is the tenth largest importer of arms in the world...
...talker, a charmer, a politician who made it largely on the strength of his charisma. As the first mayor of Boston whose parents were born in Ireland, and the first Roman Catholic in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fitzgerald was noted for having developed "the Irish switch"--the art of shaking hands with one person while talking to another...
...jokes that his appeal for Russian viewers can be explained by the fact that "I'm not one of them and I'm not foreign." He belongs, instead, to the Estonian school of TV and radio reporters, sharpened by competition with Western broadcasting from nearby Finland. Ott believes the art of interviewing was lost during the Brezhnev years, when prepared answers to prepared questions became the norm. With Television Acquaintance he has set about reviving the genre and giving it a personal spin. As he bluntly puts it, "An interview is not a speech...
...still our turn to lead, to help invest in the new mythology. The American space program has become a kind of monument that we have bequeathed to future generations and the other peoples of our planet. It is a homage to humility and hope, a promise, like great art or science, that we can escape, that we can loose the bonds that chain us to ourselves and soar. The rockets are soaring again. But they're not going anywhere...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph Hoglund...