Word: british
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales campaign for a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a bizarre ailment: a boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own and talks back with a vengeance. With black humor and a weird, Kafkaesque sensibility, director Bruce Robinson delivers a biting satire of Thatcherite society...
...double hit indeed. The allies greeted the combination of plans rapturously, though with some technical reservations. As Dutch Prime Minister Rudd Lubbers said, "The experts may not be happy with this, but as a politician, I think it's the right thing to do." The President, said the prestigious British daily the Guardian, "rode to the rescue like the proverbial U.S. cavalry, at the last possible minute." There was even approval, though much more muted, from the Soviets. From Paris, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze called Bush's plans "serious" and a "step in the right direction...
...months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear future...
...following months, leading Iranian politicians such as Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 54, attempted to soften their country's radical image. But Khomeini would have none of it. Last February he prompted a worldwide outcry when he demanded the death of Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born, British author of The Satanic Verses, a book many regard as blasphemous to Islam. "It is incumbent on every Muslim to do everything possible to send him to hell," declared the Imam. An angry Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, and many Western ambassadors were temporarily recalled from Tehran...
...crusade to help save Planet Earth. From efforts to insert environmental themes into movies and TV to the formation of action groups by the rich and famous, the entertainment industry is mobilizing to help solve the environmental crisis. "We have all realized we're on the front lines," says British rock star Sting, who is campaigning worldwide to save the Brazilian rain forest. "We have access to information and can transmit it through the media...