Word: berge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most desperate night callers seek sleazy entertainment, not salvation. But Stone wants more. In Salvador and Platoon he found drama to match his message; here he must invent tragedy to suit his spleen. He moves Barry from Cleveland to Dallas and appropriates the murder of Denver radio host Alan Berg -- a little silver anniversary present to the Kennedy-assassination city. Stone's camera closes in on Bogosian's face as if it were the cratered moonscape of the American mind, and the actor / starts shouting into his megaphone mike. Finally, these two have become like Barry's listeners, shrill...
...Frederic Berg, chairman of the Washington Mint, has twice changed his company's advertisements in response to complaints from the Postal Service. This time he has decided to fight back: "We're not going to roll over on this." He adds that the Government's case is "patently ridiculous." His company sold all 5,000 of the medallions, about 25 of which have been returned by customers...
Fullback Bruce Miller scored the game-winner off a five-meter scrummage. Miller received a nice pass from freshman eight-man Soren O'Berg. During loose play, O'Berg picked the ball up, ran around the corner--forcing the Eagle defenders to overcommit themselves--before he passed to the trailing Miller...
...presents the glimmer of a great opportunity: the planet's problems could become so paramount they would force a new spirit of international partnership, one that could serve as a model for cooperation on political, economic and military matters. "We're talking about a global-security issue," says Robert Berg, president of the International Development Conference...
Part of the problem with The Boys and Their Baby is that it's difficult to sympathize with the main character. He seems like he has so many problems, but when you get right down to it and analyze them, they seem so meaningless. Adam Berg, is a 30 year old Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend...