Word: curtain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fall of the Iron Curtain could spur a cleanup. West Europeans lead the world in environmental consciousness because they have suffered egregious homegrown pollution as well as grime floating in from the east. Expenditures on environmental protection in Western Europe have increased from $46 billion in 1987 to $73 billion this year, and are expected to rise 75% more by the year 2000. Additional funds and technology will undoubtedly go to help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment...
Waters accused President Bush of being "the biggest bluffer." She charged Bush with trying to mask the true objective of the intervention--U.S. economic interests--behind the curtain of such justifications as a possible Iraqi nuclear threat. And the representative applauded the emerging anti-war sentiment in the U.S. that she hopes will end U.S. military involvement in the Gulf crisis...
...ancient Greek painters Zeuxis and Parrhasius vied, according to legend, to see who could produce the most realistic painting. Zeuxis illustrated grapes so lifelike that birds swooped down and tried to eat them. Parrhasius outdid him, however, by fashioning a curtain that Zeuxis, mistaking for fabric, attempted to pull open. A long line of artists have since striven to equal Parrhasius' success by bestowing an illusory third dimension to flat, featureless walls and ceilings. Known as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye), the style reached its prime in the Renaissance and during the Baroque period, when painters embellished churches...
...down, he advocated a go- slow policy on unification. And when the unity drive picked up steam, he attacked Kohl's claim that it could be financed without straining national resources and raising taxes. What Lafontaine underestimated was the depth of feeling on both sides of the old Iron Curtain in favor of merging the two Germanys -- and with that his strategy backfired. His effectiveness as a campaigner was also undermined by near tragedy: in April a deranged woman plunged a knife into his neck, just missing the carotid artery. The assassination attempt forced Lafontaine into a two-month convalescence...
...East and West officially proclaimed the end of the cold war at the Paris summit last week, the once unthinkable happened: a Soviet armored vehicle roared across what used to be the Iron Curtain smack into downtown Berlin. Following an argument with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old Soviet soldier from a base in Elstal, west of Berlin, had decided to cool off by taking his ACRV M-1974 artillery-command and reconnaissance vehicle for a spin. About 16 miles down the road, he rumbled into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars...