Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Chinese leaders made a gesture of ideological conciliation to Moscow by playing host to Georges Marchais, head of the pro-Soviet French Communist Party. The leaders of the two parties announced that they would resume relations, which were broken in 1965 when the Chinese accused the French Communists of blind allegiance to Moscow...
...Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then came the Reagan Administration's abrupt ban on U.S. export deals related to the pipeline, and by last summer Andrew's French connection looked broken. But the company, which first sold stock to the public in 1980 and has seen its value more than triple since then, did not give...
Actors have been known to go onstage with flu, fever, broken limbs. But they do not have to sing. When an opera star's voice goes, he might just aswell leave the stage. And that is precisely what two tenors did this month at two of the world's most prestigious companies, the Vienna State Opera and New York's Metropolitan, causing consternation on both sides of the Atlantic...
...translation: the drawing is sloppy, the color mud. There are also some steals from Robert Motherwell, in the form of maps of Europe with overpainting. Such work is homage rendered as cliché; but then Schnabel's reputation rests more on his plate paintings, layer on layer of broken crockery combined with things like antlers and twigs and slathered in paint...
...chance has it, the characters are immured in a New Mexico mission house on a false atomic-emergency alert. There is a rich widow (Tanya Berezin) who has purchased a potential Wimbledon champ (Brian Tarantina) for off-court recreation. There is an Ivy League professor (Fritz Weaver), broken in mind, health and will, who has reached the conclusion that teaching is a fraud. His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy. And then there is Barnard Hughes, a man who enhances the scope and embellishes the vocabulary of acting every time he steps...