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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision makes Orton the man, not Orton the event, the focus of the film. We get an idea of the outrageous sexual farce Orton concocted for the Beatles in his never-made Up Against It, but Prick Up Your Ears is far more concerned with the irreverent way Orton dealt with McCartney and Co. than with what he wanted...
...Inflation may be roaring back: last week the Government reported that in April wholesale prices skyrocketed at an annual rate of 8.9%, the worst monthly performance since October 1985. For the same period, industrial production fell by .4%, the steepest drop in more than a year. The bad news dealt a sharp blow to the seemingly irrepressible stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 52.97 points on Friday, the fourth largest one-day decline in history, to close...
...BDFG, i.e., that "social mobilization is equal to economic development times mobility opportunities times political institutionalization times political instability"? And Koblitz remarks: "Huntington's use of equations produces effects--mystification, intimidation, an impression of precision and profundity..." Huntington fails to define just what these terms mean, or how he dealt with them quantitatively. In particular, how is one to take the sentence: "The overall correlation between frustration and instability was .50." What is the meaning of the two significant figures...
...last year, Congressional action on tax reform and mandatory retirement dealt higher education its first significant legislative defeats in recent years...
Many intellectuals consider Children of the Arbat to be the most important work of fiction by a Soviet author since Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, not least because it treats subjects that Soviet literature has never dealt with before. Rybakov's book is an attempt to come to literary terms with the Stalin era, just as Pasternak tried to give literary meaning to the Russian revolution and civil war of his own generation. But unlike Doctor Zhivago, which first appeared in Italian, Children of the Arbat is coming out in its author's native land and language...