Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Negotiations have been far from the classic situation," says Nona Strauss, a University negotiator on health care issues. "It wasn't the old smoke-filled room with the two sides arguing at a table," she says...
...with chopsticks. But give them a spoon with pasta, and they don't know how to roll it on the fork!" That's not all. "Why is pasta overcooked in America? Why is it oversauced? I get depressed." She regrets having put a cold-pasta recipe in her More Classic Italian Cookbook, which apparently sparked America's pasta-salad boom in the '80s. "I'm so embarrassed," she rails, explaining that cold pasta is not a part of traditional Italian cuisine. Not that she doesn't favor many American foods: hot dogs, pastrami, the world's best steaks, corn...
...riotous bloom of people power, Chinese-style, that took hold of Beijing last week began as a movement almost exclusively of students. But in one of those extraordinarily rare and historic occasions -- it was Karl Marx who gave such moments the classic definition "revolutionary praxis" -- a kind of instant solidarity appeared last Wednesday. It bound together the disparate groups -- students, workers, professionals, academics -- whose union China's leaders had long feared...
LOVERBOY. Delivering pizza in Beverly Hills offers all sorts of erotic opportunities -- and comic ones too -- in this cheeky romantic romp. Patrick Dempsey has the charm and director Joan Micklin Silver the knack to bring off a modern farce in the classic style...
...Forward defense is the strategy the alliance wants. It is a militarily feasible strategy, but, of course, it is not the classic defensive strategy. The classic defense is one that is mobile, trading space for time. We don't have the space to pull back, so we rely on nuclear weapons. But in a Lance- - less world, we might have to relook the strategy. The risks would increase greatly simply because we would have lessened the nuclear capability available for deterrence purposes. I for one would not like to operate at that level of risk, and I don't think...