Word: barriere
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...figure-skating competition, the barrier is not language. But getting through to skating judges is no easier in Sarajevo than anywhere else. During the early phases, form was hardly just holding, it was absolutely refusing to let go. The British ice-dancing champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean received perfect 6.0 scores in the compulsory dance from three judges, two of whom were not the costume designer who dresses Torvill and Dean. Nobody denies that they are the best-or that the judges know who is supposed to be the best. The U.S. couple, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, stood...
...lyrical black and white photography of stormy skies, barking dog and the imposing grandeur of the Russian landscape play no small role in the overall success of the film in which visual images rise above the language barrier. King Lear is not suitable viewing material for a restless Saturday night; but for an audience willing to participate actively in the drama, it is nothing short of breath-taking...
...South Dakota, from which they intended to sell insurance across state borders. Unbowed, the banks have now started pressuring Congress for a legislative change to let their strategy go ahead. Citicorp Vice Chairman Hans Angermueller bluntly says that his company's tactic is "to batter at every barrier at all times." With that kind of zeal behind it, full national banking is probably not far away...
...conductor-inappropriate, he thought, for a college graduate. Working double shifts, 16 and sometimes 20 hours a day, living in a slum on tea and biscuits, he saved enough money to take a full-time accounting course and move to London. There he found the color barrier even harder to penetrate. He landed a factory job by pretending to speak pidgin English-"Me good worker, guv'nor. Give me job." When his opportunity finally came, he was almost too alienated to recognize it, but he rewarded that first real employer ("an angel") with exceptionally hard work...
...people in the U.S. (68% according to the Harris Survey) do indeed favor capital punishment; and the U.S. Supreme Court also seems impatient with what it regards as endless legalistic ploys to evade execution. Last week, by a 7-to-2 vote, the court emphatically tore down one more barrier to the execution of many of the 1,289 people currently on death rows in 34 states. The Justices ruled that state appeals courts have no constitutional obligation to review a death sentence to see whether it is "proportionate" to the punishment imposed on others convicted of the same crime...