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...official banners that failed to brighten this sad city included two words: glasnost and demokratizatsiya. For the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda, those two words stand for genuine political virtues the leadership has introduced into the life of the citizenry. Yet in private conversation they often resonate with disappointment and foreboding, as though they were euphemisms for the messiness of current events and some vague chaos still to come...
...gestures of gracious individuals may in the end outlast and belie the labels hung on the Me generation. And government, in the meantime, could take some lessons from the most creative of these very private enterprises. Good ideas need money and leadership as well as light and oxygen to brighten and spread. In the process, we might even discover that this is already a kinder, gentler nation than we ever imagined...
CINEMA: Twins and twits brighten two holiday romps...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
After six years of economic crisis, Mexico's prospects finally seemed to brighten this year. The country's stock market became the world's fastest- rising exchange, as share prices climbed more than 649% during the first nine months of 1987. The government's foreign currency reserves swelled by 150% to a comfortable $17 billion, the highest level of any Latin American debtor country, and a surge of exports helped the Mexicans rack up a $6.6 billion trade surplus...