Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Streetsmart has tips on how to protect oneself from muggings and robberies: it re-states commonsense wisdom like not remaining in a half-empty subway car if someone starts threatening to rob you, or not walking in high-crime areas alone after dark. Such advice can never be repeated enough, but the style of the book should be carefully noted by both fans and critics of the Angels. Sliwa and Schwartz repeatedly pander to the worst fears and stereotypes held by white middle-class city and suburban dwellers...
...brief television address to celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody had died, but nobody guessed it was Brezhnev. We had all seen him on television three days before, reviewing the military parade...
...Dark Horse: With his puffy face and bulbous nose, Viktor Grishin, 68, is a ringer for Chicago's late mayor Richard Daley. He resembles him in more than just appearance. As First Secretary of the Communist Party apparatus in Moscow, Grishin can deliver the Soviet equivalent of the Cook County vote to anyone vying for the top party slot. Like onetime Moscow Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev, he could use his post to help himself...
Young Brezhnev: Tall, dark-haired and well-dressed, Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, moves graciously at party functions, chatting and smiling with the ease of a youthful Brezhnev. He has traveled more widely in non-Communist-bloc countries-Austria, Algeria, Japan, West Germany-than most of his peers, impressing Western observers as an intelligent manager. Now that he has attained nonvoting membership in the Politburo, he could...
...doctor's Jewish identity seems to be the source of his problems and his effect on everyone: Morreau's simplistic attempt to portray the resulting tensions fails because her images are too stereotypically flat. More of a presence than a character, the doctor's black suit and ever present dark car too heavily suggest his mysterious nature...