Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week Bonner returns to Moscow, and then, presumably, will rejoin her husband in Gorky. Sakharov, a Nobel Peace laureate and leading human-rights activist, was abducted in 1980 from a Moscow street corner and eventually bundled off to the industrial city of Gorky. Bonner, for her part, tirelessly shuttled 250 miles to bring Sakharov food parcels, then returned to Moscow with his latest thoughts for Western journalists, who are barred from Gorky. In 1984 she was convicted of slandering the Soviet system and forced to join her husband in exile...
...regard itself as a potential commodity, and paradise is less often lost than remaindered. The visitor to Nepal, which was long known as the Forbidden Land and closed to foreigners until as recently as 1951, can now stay comfortably at the Hotel Eden in Katmandu. Just around the corner, he can dine at the Paradise Restaurant or the Earth's Heaven Restaurant; after dinner, he can stroll to Nirvana Tours, the Hotel Shangri-La or a host of other 50 cents-a-night flophouses and cappuccino houses. There, the locals are sure to remind him that the real paradise...
...year-old member of the U.S. National Team, Kenworthy visited Guatemala. He went back to Central America last summer, not to fire centering passes or launch one of his blistering drives to the corner of the net, but to work on a collective farm and learn about Nicaragua's revolution...
...things as lists of headlines from The Crimson's front page, titles of memos, lots of names, and idiotic descriptions of office buildings--for example, "The carpet is light blue, and there are large windows in all the outer offices, with more glass on the interior walls of the corner offices. The furnishings are modern." To hide the lack of quality, Vigeland resorts to quantity...
...illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that as the son, Macchio looks so skittish that his feet...