Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amfitheatrof, each ritual had its memorable moments. "Brezhnev's was the first of my Red Square state funerals, but I missed it," he says. "I chose instead to be one of 30 journalists permitted to go into the Kremlin's pearl white, czarist-era Hall of St. George to watch the world's leaders express condolences to Brezhnev's successor, Andropov." Amfitheatrof had armed himself with a strong pair of Soviet-made binoculars to monitor Andropov's expression as he greeted such disparate visitors as George Bush and Fidel Castro. "The binoculars were large and conspicuous," recalls Amfitheatrof...
Although analysts predicted that the debt package would be worth only about $55 a share once the securities started trading, Icahn declared victory and withdrew. "We're delighted about the outcome," he said. "Now I think it is a fair deal." Pickens chose to sell his 8.9 million shares back to the company at the $53 price that he had been promised last December. It was about time, said Pickens, that Phillips came around, instead of acting like a "mother handing a lollipop to her children one piece at a time...
ANDREA LEE'S first book, Russian Journal, received unanimous praise and was nominated for a National Book Award. It also never mentioned the fact that its author "happened to be Black." Fortunately, Lee chose to write about her background in Sarah Phillips. The book is mislabeled a "novel"; it is really a collection of finely shaped autobiographical short stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker--that could stand alone, but are held together by the common themes of confusion, intellectuality, the Black bourgeoisie and the civil rights movement...
McDonald's chose its McStars from 7,500 alumni who responded to newspaper ads placed by the company in January. Each will be paid the standard screen actor's fee of $317.40 plus residuals. Fame or success in high-powered careers was not required for selection: an electric company lineman, a barber and a flight attendant are among the chosen. To promote burgers but not burgomasters, all politicians were eliminated from contention. That knocked out Tulsa Mayor Terry Young...
PLUSCA CHANGE, plus e'est lameme chose:" one of the more memorable lines in The Devil Always Wins, it could, in fact, serve as its thesis statement as well. Not that the basic idea is bad, mind you, though somewhat familiiar, man sells out to the devil, thinks he has gotten the better end of the deal, and discovers otherwise. We've seen what's been done with this theme in the past; let's see what's been done here...