Word: daring
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...music-and-entertainment store is a dare to U.S. competition. Four other stores are planned for New York. Along with five now operating in California, they will give Virgin 64 of these new-wave entertainment centers in 12 countries. There are plans for 30 more in the U.S. by 1999. Next week Virgin Atlantic Airways, Branson's iconoclastic transatlantic carrier, adds the lucrative Washington-London route to its expanding U.S. service. Virgin Publishing is poised to snag American book readers. In Europe, Branson is starting up a cut-price airline, Virgin Express; he's part of a group taking over...
About 1,500 citizens pack the Palace of Culture and Art to hear the man so many love to hate. "I have no text," Gorbachev says. "Ask your questions." Instantly, a Russian air force general is shouting: "You bastard! You traitor! You destroyed the motherland. How dare you face the people...
...release, back up quickly to the previous number, Private Conversation, and surrender to the pulse of a Saturday-night bar band. Maybe you don't dare face "the moral of this story," which is "to look at what you've been through/ And see what you've become." Not to sweat; just follow the Gospel According to Lyle: "Boy, pick up that fiddle,/ Ooh and play that steel guitar,/ Ooh and find your- self a lady,/ Ooh and dance right where you are." This buoyant song allows you to do nothing else. It proves there's no misery, public...
...sheer drama few novelists would dare invent the stories of these correspondents: Cecil Brown (one of the long-forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back...
This means that, while he didn't dare speak out on behalf of persecuted writers like Babel, Mandelstam or Anna Akhmatova during the Stalin years, Ehrenburg worked assiduously to resurrect their reputations in the more lenient Khrushchev period. As Rubinstein documents, Ehrenburg used his position as the Soviet writer best known to the Western intelligentsia in order to blackmail the censors: he would repeatedly announce the publication of a controversial book or article, then protest that its failure to appear due to censorship would reflect badly on the Soviet regime in the West...