Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian government marshaled an imposing display of security forces, including 8,000 reinforcements flown in from around the country to patrol the city's waterways and narrow streets. Venetians were sometimes startled to see navy frogmen emerging from the littered green waters of the canals after periodic searches for limpet mines...
...challenge of their fast-breeding, ethnically alien compatriots in Central Asia. It is for this reason that the most intense manifestation of Russian xenophobia is Sinophobia. On the streets of Moscow, for example, the occasional Chinese visitor inspires something palpably different from and deeper than the resentment that Muscovites display toward the thousands of Third World exchange students who attend Patrice Lumumba Friendship of Peoples University. Those foreigners are unpopular because they have access to hard-currency stores, and because of their comparatively generous government stipends and their notoriety as black marketeers. On a bus or a metro...
...short story writers to emerge since Stalin's death, Vasili Aksyonov, 47, continues to display the greatest virtuosity. Although he has written enormously popular stories in a realist vein, Aksyonov has gone on to explore a variety of modes and permutations of language, entering the 1980s as the Soviet Union's only truly modern prose writer. His evolution is instructive. Aksyonov's first fiction dealt with a previously unheard-of theme: the real life of Soviet teenagers...
...should we blame President Carter for his rare display of courage in withstanding pressures to attend Tito's funeral [May 19]? How could he, as a defender of human rights? Too many Serbs and Croats whose relatives have been persecuted by Tito's goons are still alive bearing witness to his inhumanity...
...time and money is being spent on these things. Electrics are no longer dowdy, at least in appearance. Experimental models are sculptured, sleek and glistening with brushed aluminum and chrome. More than two dozen of them were on display last month in St. Louis at the Third International Electric Vehicle Exposition and Conference. One of the new cars-made under U.S. Department of Energy auspices by General Electric, Chrysler and Globe-Union, a major battery manufacturer-was low slung and wedgelike, with the sexy space-age acronymic designation ETV-1 (for electric test vehicle). The car has lightweight alloy wheels...