Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the midday voters at polling station 202 in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus dutifully accepted the printed ballots listing the official slate of candidates and dropped them into the large white-and-red box without a moment's hesitation. But one elderly man insisted on his right to consider alternative choices, noting that "nobody buys a cat in a bag." As he stepped into the booth conspicuously provided for that purpose, amused polling officials heard him sarcastically exclaim as he marked his ballot, "What a surprise! They even provide pencils to cross out these names...
...closetful of honorary degrees, her very own 1983 Mercedes 380 SL convertible and three nicely grown children who claim that they are going to add up all the jokes she has made about them and charge her 25? apiece. Newspapers around the country (see box) are filled with would-be Bombecks bursting in air. Though when women say they want to be just like her, she says wryly, "What they mean is they want to stay at home, make a lot of money and appear on the Johnny Carson show...
Although the twelve-man Politburo makes its decisions collectively, the new ultrahard Line is widely identified with the growing influence of one man: Andrei Gromyko (see box). The combination of Chernenko's rumored weakness as a leader and his lack of experience in foreign affairs appears to have given Gromyko more power than at any other time in his 27 years as Foreign Minister. Foreign delegations that have traveled to Moscow in the past few months have been startled to observe how Gromyko interrupts Chernenko during meetings. In private sessions with Westerners, Soviet diplomats, journalists and academics disparage Chernenko...
Those who endorsed the government's first choice for candidacies had only to pick up their ballot and deposit it in a box, while those who selected the official second choice or decided to write in a name had to enter a curtained voting booth...
Grisly scenes like these have not hurt the box-office receipts of either picture. Indiana Jones earned a phenomenal $94.5 million in its first 23 days, and Gremlins grossed $ 12.5 million in its first weekend. But they have incited a torrent of complaints that the PG rating given both movies fails to warn impressionable young children. The outcry has come not just from peevish movie critics but from theater owners and parents as well. Carl Hoffman, a film buyer for the Dubinsky Brothers movie chain in the Midwest, says that 50 people stalked out of a screening of Gremlins because...