Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast numbers of Asian-Americans who do not come to America with strong college educations and for their descendents, the miracle of "success" comes with familiar, brutal infrequency. And finally, this way of thinking ignores whatever cultural legacies remain unique to Asian-Americans--what some have labelled orthodoxy, passivity or "oriental" foreignness--and what they provoke from mainstream America...
...Eastern Europe's main problems is concealed inflation: too much money chasing too few goods. West Germany's remarkable postwar recovery was based on a brutal currency reform that in 1948, under Allied military government, destroyed all savings and, by restoring the scarcity value of money, ended the barter economy. Eastern Europe suffers from another economic distortion: the incestuous trade patterns that are a legacy of the Stalinist years. Trade under Comecon, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was based on a curious reverse mercantilism: the imperial country (the Soviet Union) supplied energy and raw materials that the colonies...
...That brutal jerk Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) -- he who almost destroyed Marty's parents' lives in 1955, and from whom Marty rescued them in the earlier film -- has survived into the 21st century too. What's worse, on their voyage into the future Marty and Doc unwittingly provide him with the means to construct a dark alternate history beginning in 1955. Over its course, Biff has managed to turn pleasant little Hill Valley, Calif., into a hellish variant of Las Vegas, with himself as its czar. He has even contrived to make Marty's mother a widow and marry...
Hayworth married, five times, men who were wrong for her. Her first husband, a drifter and grifter named Eddie Judson, was roughly her father's age. Although he helped turn a chubby young dancer into a screen siren, his methods were brutal; he offered her body to those in Hollywood who could advance her career. She claimed to have been happy with Welles, at least before his infidelities became too blatant. "If this was happiness," Welles told Leaming years later, "imagine what the rest of her life had been...
Thousands of demonstrators shake the remaining hard-line regimes. -- Could East Germany hold its own in a partnership with West Germany? -- A hotbed of protest in Leipzig. -- Guerrillas storm the capital of El Salvador, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, rebels and civilians, and the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests...