Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does Art Buchwald have in common with Leo Tolstoy? Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Mary McCarthy? Not to mention Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Tarzan, Superman and Little Orphan Annie. Right: they all lost parents at an early age and had to confront the world more or less on their...
Long used to icy adversaries in the Kremlin, Americans must now confront a vigorous and imaginative Soviet leader. He is bent on transforming his muscle- bound but backward empire into a modern state able to hold its own in the global marketplace of goods and ideas. There is reason to wish him well, but also reason for skepticism. See WORLD...
...wean her from the diet pills, but three months later she was again covertly obtaining them from another physician. She continued the charade for eight more years until her husband noticed a stray bill from the doctor who was writing her prescription. Only then did Mrs. Dukakis reluctantly confront her dependency. "I had been taking diet pills for 26 years," she says. "I was very frightened. I didn't know much about recovery programs...
...cheap -- but a bastard" in combat. Over the years, though, Weizman has become a leading opponent of the plane. Says he: "It is too costly, comes too late and at the expense of more important objectives." Today the aircraft represents the perils that a small, defense-minded country can confront when it sets out to produce a world-class warplane...
...reader sees Rusty not as a simple victim but as a driven person forced to pause and confront the complexity of his own mind...