Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring in London, John Dexter directed Rex Harrison and, as the sisters, Diana Rigg and Rosemary Harris in a production so dazzlingly elegant that the final, abrupt catastrophe seemed a nightmare from which the descending curtain would deliver the audience. Now Harrison, a strangely serene fatalist of a patriarch...
But unity never comes easily to Democrats, nor does fund raising. Before the Democrats even set forth last week in a pair of DC-8 jets, Jesse Jackson accused party leaders of "stacking the deck" against outsiders, minorities and the poor. Alan Cranston refused to join the trip because of...
Navy officials who sought to deflect the criticism had plausible answers to many of the questions. True, the A-6E and A-7E fighter-bombers used in the attack were subsonic planes designed in the late 1950s, giving rise to charges that outdated equipment was at fault. But Navy spokesmen...
Walesa's wife Danuta made the trip, however, and after Aarvik spoke, she rose to deliver a 15-minute speech written by her husband. "On this solemn day, my place is among those with whom I have grown and to whom I belong, the workers of Gdansk," she read...
To the Soviets it was the "deal of the century," but in the West it is better remembered as an unnecessary source of tension between the U.S. and Western Europe. The Reagan Administration vigorously opposed European plans to help build and finance an $18 billion, 2,759-mile pipeline designed...