Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent...
"I couldn't have imagined this would happen in my wildest fantasies," marveled artist Dread Scott Tyler. What astonished him was the mobs of outraged veterans and others who gathered daily at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to protest his controversial work featuring an American flag stretched...
By imposing a hiring freeze and cutbacks on travel and office and computer equipment, the agency has closed the gap to $50 million. But as peak season approaches, officials are concerned that the tax-collection system might overheat from the heavy workload. The agency admits that 1 out of every...
Despite a near reverence for authority, East German youths are growing restless because of contact with the freedoms and goods of the West, while an increasingly impatient cadre of younger, more reformist party figures are chafing over the closed door to change at the top. While East Germany seems out...
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov denounced the expulsion as a "provocation" and "not in line with the spirit of peaceful cooperation." Five days later the Soviets responded in kind, ordering U.S. embassy employee Lieut. Colonel Daniel Van Gundy to leave Moscow. The charge: attempting to enter a closed area...