Word: defective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artillery attacks on Istalif, Herat and other cities, but without destroying the rebels' resiliency. Soon after the Soviet and Afghan government forces announced last August that they had "pacified" Kandahar, the Mujahedin took to the rooftops with loudspeakers and for hours taunted the government soldiers, urging them to defect to the rebel cause...
...bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift for tart dialogue and pleasant personification. It is the defect of her writing that things proceed a little too smoothly. Some second-act confusions and reversals might well have been in order...
...composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene, the sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point. What was supposed to be a grand laser spectacle representing the flight of the birds in the shape of a cross is instead something more suitable to a light show in a down...
When 57 wounded Cubans were returned to Havana, Western journalists were permitted to interview some in their hospital beds. Most claimed that on Grenada they had been asked whether they would like to defect to the U.S. They contended that they had received no advance warning of the U.S. invasion-a claim that conflicts with Castro's report that he sent warning to "Cuban representatives in Grenada" on the Saturday before the Tuesday strike. Even the U.S. State Department told Havana just hours before the invasion that the strike was imminent, assuring Castro that it was not aimed...
Havana in addition is preparing Cuban and world opinion for the possibility that some Cuban prisoners in Grenada might defect to the U.S. That has not happened yet, but Castro evidently fears it will and is seeking to soften the blow by dismissing any defections in advance as the result of U.S. psychological coercion. A government communique charges that American interrogators are "using every possible means to undermine the morale" of the prisoners, telling them that Cuba does not want them back and offering them political asylum...