Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crowe knows, past protestations by the Kremlin of its peaceful intentions have been belied by the size and menace of its war machine. Soviet strategists have traditionally stressed that the best defense is a good offense. To the outside world, the result has often looked more offensive than defensive. Gorbachev and Akhromeyev tried to convince Crowe that something fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first...
HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s, Frankenthaler's lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why. Through...
...kindly store owners. At first, the dilemmas are predictably pastel too: populist cliches brought to life by an attractive cast. Even the racial epithets have a jaunty tinge, as in a series of antibrotherhood jokes made by blacks, Italians, Hispanics, white cops and Korean grocers -- the film's best sequence. On this street there are no crack dealers, hookers or muggers, just a 24-hour deejay named Mister Senor Love Daddy (Sam Jackson), who punctuates every mellow bellow with "And that's the truth, Ruth...
...eviscerated hundreds of companies and cost thousands of employees their jobs while lining the pockets of many CEOs and investment bankers. From 1977 to 1987, executive pay and bonuses jumped 120%, vs. 80% for factory workers' wages. Says Elmer Johnson, a retired executive vice president of General Motors: "The best minds are not creating wealth but just transferring and churning...
...That was cited by the Pulitzer committee. Some folks thought it was particularly nasty. I quote: "Times Square . . . is best known as the site where many thousands of people gather each New Year's Eve for a joyous and festive night of public urination . . . It also serves as an important cultural center where patrons may view films such as Sex Aliens, Wet Adulteress, and, of course, Sperm Busters." It seems that you try to be as provocative and as offensive as possible. Doesn't your editor object...