Word: coupes
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There has been, of course, the success of the Pope's Crossing The Threshold Of Hope. (Harper Collins, not to be outdone by Knopi's coup, will be publishing the Dalai Lama's Essential Guide to Human Liberation, which is touted as offering "10 clear steps toward the peace and compassion of true enlightenment...
Yeltsin's fiction of noninvolvement vanished last week. The causes: a botched coup and POWS in danger. A coalition of anti-Dudayev forces had rolled into Chechnya's capital of Grozny in late November only to be repelled by Dudayev loyalists, who claim to have destroyed 20 tanks and killed 350 people in the fighting. They also captured 120 Russian soldiers among the rebels and paraded them on television. Back in Russia, the families of the prisoners identified their kin as members of a Russian army unit. Yeltsin could no longer afford to dissemble. Until then, Moscow had always insisted...
...never a threat and everybody knew that," a reinvigorated Helms told reporters during a home state visit. He aimed his next shot at the Raleigh News & Observer, which he said should have included the word "jokingly" when it quoted him on Clinton's safety. But Helms saved his coup de grace for the media in general: "You need to play a large role in cleaning up your act . . . The liberal news media is guilty of intellectual dishonesty. These liberal elitists shot themselves in the foot. The American people don't trust the news media. You ought to know...
Until now, Grachev's trump card has been his loyalty to Yeltsin: during the coup attempts of August 1991 and October 1993 it was Grachev's support, however reluctant, that inspired the military to stand behind the President. Yeltsin has consistently repaid Grachev by standing firmly behind his Defense Minister. Now there are signs that Yeltsin may be concluding that Grachev's liabilities outweigh his assets. The possibility that the Defense Minister may be forced to step down has already sparked a fierce debate over who might succeed him. Will Grachev be forced to make an ignominious exit...
Director Trevor Nunn and designer John Napier, the Cats team, have fashioned one coup de theatre after another, reprising Wilder's opening with the newly deceased hero (Alan Campbell as Joe Gillis) facedown in a swimming pool, and working up to a levitating mansion. This larger-than-larger-than-life approach ; doomed the gentle Aspects, but it suits the more histrionic material of Sunset. Some of the lyrics, though, have got to go. To have Joe sing that L.A. has changed a lot "since those brave gold rush pioneers/ Came in their creaky covered wagons" is ridiculous. L.A. barely existed...