Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barricades, comrades! The capitalists at Parker Brothers are launching an attack on the motherland -- a Russian-language version of Monopoly. Although negotiations for the board game's actual introduction into the Soviet Union are still under way, Monopoliia will be unveiled on Oct. 17 at the World Monopoly Championship in London. Instead of Boardwalk, players will land on Arbat, a pedestrian mall in Moscow where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev strolled during the May summit. All references to stocks, which are not sold in the Soviet Union, have been changed to bonds. But the familiar tokens...
...Crimson (6-2) started poorly on the attack, exhibiting little in the form of a set offense in the first quarter, but sharp shooting by freshman Mike Johnson and sophomore John Marshall helped stake Harvard to a 5-1 halftime lead...
Bush campaigned in the swing states of Ohio and Missouri, where he referred to the attack that furlough escapee Willie Horton committed on a Maryland couple last year. He criticized Dukakis for having "an astounding lack of sensitivity for crime victims...
During this last monologue, Bogosian sneaks an occasional look at the audience. He seems almost surprised that there is someone there to listen. The venomous attack is simultaneous with the clear desire to gain approval...
...that represents. Bogosian's acute anxiety about the audience. He is a fast-talking, neurotic misanthrope who struggles between the desire to be loved and the desire to be left alone. As he sits balled up in a chair clutching a microphone, Bogosian delivers a vituperative, slightly loony attack on human cruelty and indifference...