Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penguin Books (1100 Mass. Ave.) is a little far away, but you can't spend a summer in Cambridge without going to Central Square, and this is on the way. It is an amazing sight, even if you don't buy a thing...
...automatic cameras possess night vision, which enabled them to record the bloody fighting along the major streets leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
There are many places in Europe where tour buses should not go. Unfortunately there are far fewer where they cannot go. One such rare route is the full, looping length of the river Seine as it winds its way through central Paris toward the English Channel. This is the waterway of kings and conquerors, of ruined abbeys, gothic trees, half-timbered farmhouses and pastoral symphonies on either bank. Until this summer, visitors who wished to savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take...
...Quayle visited four Central American countries last week, promoted his usual hard line against Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, and admonished right-wingers in El Salvador to abjure human- rights abuses. That his efforts received routine news coverage delighted his staff...
While never deviating from basic Bush policy in public, Quayle places himself a few degrees to the President's right, acting the conservative enforcer. It was Quayle who talked about the Soviets' "hatred of God." While in Central America, he inveighed against the "axis" of dictatorships in Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba, and posed with a grenade launcher that he said the Sandinistas had shipped to Marxist rebels in El Salvador...