Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self but, for all her maternal devotion, she is so caught up in minutiae that she fails to pay meaningful attention to the actual girl who stands yearning for it. That moment underlines why Wilder chose his austere narrative form. It too demands that people pay attention rather than be guided by the obvious. It sends them into the night having had to stop and look and listen...
...Yuri Andropov, both austere figures disgusted by the corruption of the Brezhnev era. When Kulakov died in 1978, he left vacant the position of Communist Party Central Committee Secretary in charge of agriculture. To fill it, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, presumably acting on the advice of Suslov and Andropov, chose a man he had evidently met only recently: Gorbachev. That meeting occurred on Sept. 19, 1978, at the tiny railroad station in Mineralnye Vody, where Brezhnev's train stopped for a brief time. In one of the more remarkable moments in Soviet history, four men who were all to serve...
...there were not trouble enough, Israel's controversial Minister of Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon chose last week to move into a new home: an apartment in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sharon, who still owns a farm in the Negev, decided to live in the Muslim quarter to make it safer for Jews who would be encouraged to follow him. Arabs responded with new protests and a strike by shopkeepers in East Jerusalem. When Sharon threw a Hanukkah party for 300 guests, hundreds of police had to be called out to provide security, and Israeli...
...seven-week trial provided a rare glimpse into the world of Washington special pleading, particularly at the Reagan White House. A top Boeing executive told the court that his company chose Deaver to lobby for a lucrative contract to build a new Air Force One because of Deaver's familiarity with the "personal tastes and preferences of the President." Deaver was paid $250,000, and Boeing eventually landed the $200 million contract...
These days, Hunter has little reason to despair, and no time for a penciled- in cry. In Raising Arizona she earned the usual critical raves as canny, resilient Ed McDonnough, lullabying her purloined baby to sleep with a grotesquely poignant backwoods ballad. (Holly chose the Charlie Monroe song herself.) She is happy to keep her private life -- which she shares with Photographer John Raffo -- private. And Hunter, whose goal was always "to be one of the really respected stage actresses," doesn't mind juggling her newfound fame with rehearsals for a Los Angeles production of Sam Shepard...