Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no mistaking the mustachioed figure with pipe in hand. Illuminated by a brilliant spotlight, Joseph Stalin had come to life onstage in a local theater production of Anatoli Rybakov's groundbreaking novel about Stalinist- era repression, Children of the Arbat. When Stalin stepped forward to deliver his monologue...
Unless Gorbachev can deliver on his promises of a better life, his popularity is likely to slip further. What may work to Gorbachev's benefit is the fact that only one-fourth of those polled expect their lives to improve. With expectations that low, Gorbachev may never find himself in...
As the ship roared higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at...
STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut.
CAPE CANAVERAL--Five astronauts blasted-off yesterday morning in the space shuttle Discovery, ready to deliver a $100 million satellite to orbit on the delayed start of an ambitious 1989 launch schedule aimed at putting America "back in the business of space."