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...strengthen his position among his cronies and those with similar experiences and like views. By the spring of 1966, when I arrived back in Moscow from New York, Brezhnev had created a broader base of support. His power was becoming entrenched. Moscow jokesters were among the first to depict the attitude of the new leadership. Fedorenko told me a story that illustrated Brezhnev's power and the age-old Russian love of wordplay: A worker asked Brezhnev how to address him. He responded bashfully: "Just call me Ilyich." That was Brezhnev's patronymic--the same as Lenin's--and indicated...
Those words were spoken by a luckless grower in The River, one of a recent spate of Hollywood movies about hard times on the farm. But while those down- home films, which also include Country and Places in the Heart, are fiction, the dramas they depict are painfully true to life. Mired in perhaps the deepest farm slump since the Great Depression, American families are being driven from their land in growing numbers at a time when much of the rest of the U.S. is enjoying prosperity. Some 20,000 farms have been auctioned off since 1981, and the toll...
THERE IS a tide in the affairs of books. At certain times, the popularity of a particular genre seems to be at its crest. Recent bestseller lists indicate that the 80s is the decade of the biography and the historical romance. They depict complete lives, some with real direction and purpose, perhaps things modern man may lack. The dreams, hopes, ambitions and achievements of the great men of a former are can offer inspiration and hope...
...flags were passed out, hundreds of balloons were pinned under nets waiting for the "go" signal, and a local band played patriotic tunes. If advancemen feared the turnout would be small, the platform for TV crews was moved closer to the main stage so that the evening news would depict a jammed crowd. When polls revealed surprising strength among the young, schedulers quickly planned more campus events. "It fits the theme," explained Deaver. "Optimism, youth, opportunity. All positive...
...emphasizes first one and then another facet of the title. Through it, he explores the manner in which truth somehow becomes a process of canonization. Though the popular legends around which these stories revolve range from James Dean to Ezra pound, the author exhibits a unity of purpose to depict a particular state of mind where the boundary between truth and fiction becomes hazy and indistinct. At the heart of these shitting surfaces lies Indiana itself, where these legends are tended and kept alive nameless, faceless acolytes...