Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villain, he's a romantic hero. And Larry Hagman is the new Clark Gable, with that same mixture of sex, charm and cruelty, the same devilish grin-and the same sweeping broad-brimmed...
...government has no peer in public relations among its Eastern European friends; a recent round of price hikes was announced a year ahead of time to soften the reaction. An economic plan put into effect last year looks suspiciously like capitalism, with financial incentives and broad leeway for managers to hire, fire and set production goals. The government also winks at a booming underground economy. Although his economic growth record was lowest in the region last year, Kádár is one of the most popular rulers in the bloc. The 60,000 Soviet troops in the country...
...that have been cranking out toylike phone gadgets that look like beer cans, Mickey Mouse and Superman. The devices connect right up to the Bell lines in homes or offices. AT&T is fighting back through its 1,800 PhoneCenter retail outlets around the country, which offer an equally broad array telephone designs to customers...
...humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya's troops began a wave of massacres and atrocities against civilians in the occupied East that sent 8 million refugees fleeing to India. Eventually...
Most of all, it is spectacle-dazzling sights, exotic sounds, strange but engrossing stories. A few members of this troupe gave a sampling of the art in 1978. Now a full company from the Peking Opera Theater is presenting the broad and impressive range of the repertory. Last week it began a ten-city, twelve-week tour in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house; it will go from there to Philadelphia Aug. 25, travel on to such places as Los Angeles and Chicago and end its run in Boston Nov. 2. The company is presenting eight separate productions, with...