Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those two tough fellows got together in a dacha outside Moscow in 1972. Brezhnev talked about his boyhood, his father and peace. Brezhnev had mastered Kremlin politics as Nixon had mastered U.S. politics. Secure in their power, they could go beyond the set agenda. After taking on a little vodka, they made a deal: SALT I. For Gromyko and Reagan, there may not have been enough vodka, because there was no deal...
...simply lowers the viewer's response to a person as a human being." When he is not drawing caricatures, Levine enjoys painting traditional watercolors. His favorite subjects include women at work in New York City's garment district, where he has observed and sketched them since his boyhood as the son of a dress manufacturer, and at play at Coney Island in his native Brooklyn...
Before he turned to this semiautobiographical novel, Detrez published two fragmentary accounts of his pious Catholic boyhood and a pamphlet defending guerrilla warfare titled For the Liberation of Brazil. Out of this unpromising welter of religious and political rhetoric there has emerged the wholly unsuspected, a writer of genuine promise...
...confident. The Conservative leader kicked off his campaign to exchange his parliamentary seat in Nova Scotia for a new one in the Manicouagan riding of Quebec by visiting his home town of Baie Comeau on the St. Lawrence River. As a pack of reporters tagged along, Mulroney enthusiastically greeted boyhood friends and even visited a nursing home to say hello to a woman who once looked after him as a child. "I've met half my home town," he quipped. "They'll vote twice, so that's everyone." Mulroney's easy manner and sonorous voice...
...been with him for about ten years now," MacLachlan says of Paul, and when he was barely one year out of acting school, he got a chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space...