Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Memory, in which the author, having fled the Soviet revolution, discusses the "bestial terror that had been sanctioned by Lenin --the torture- house, the blood-bespattered wall." Reed saw what he wished to see, Nabokov what he saw. One assumes that Gorbachev is no Lenin, except perhaps in intellectual bent, but the problem of perception remains. Today one takes a position between Reed and Nabokov, between the desire for optimism and the knowledge of a brutal regime...
...visit to Britain last December. Evening news programs showed Gorbachev and the Politburo delegation as they paused inside the House of Trade Unions to contemplate the alabaster profile of Chernenko; the open coffin was set high amid a bank of purple, red and white flowers. At one point, Gorbachev bent over to express his condolences to Chernenko's widow Anna. Gorbachev's wife Raisa was seated at her side. During the 42 hours that Chernenko's body lay in state, convoys of buses brought groups of party faithful, many of them workers and farmers from outlying regions, to swell...
...paces, until William Graves of Kentucky killed Jonathan Cilley of Maine in 1839, prompting Congress to pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow...
...three months leading up to Christmas, the workers at Apple Computer toiled like tireless elves. Dealers, bent on avoiding a shortage of the company's products, had ordered some 800,000 machines, nearly three times as many as they had the previous Yule season. But sales were weaker than expected, creating a springtime Apple glut of some 120,000 unsold computers. As a result, the company (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) announced last week that for the first time in its eight-year history it will temporarily shut down assembly lines because of a surplus of wares. Calling the hiatus...
...have a-changed since 1969 than the choice of vehicles David Howard (Albert Brooks) makes when, having been passed over for promotion at the ad agency, he decides to seek true values on the open road. Somehow he talks his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty), a straight arrow with several bent feathers, into risking all their capital on this trundle into self-discovery. Their itinerary, compared with that of their role models, is truncated and painfully mainstream. It consists largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle...