Word: doom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev is hardly a disinterested party in the matter: failure to modernize the economies and political structures of Moscow's closest trading and security partners would greatly complicate his efforts at home, if not doom them. The big question is whether the leap forward taken in Moscow can provide momentum for the satellites. "This is a watershed moment for all of Eastern Europe," said a Western diplomat in Warsaw. "One way or another, all these regimes must now respond to the reality that Gorbachev has prevailed...
...cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins, in a role for which Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray were considered, lacks their effortless star quality. He's more like an armor-plated Yosemite Sam, gruff and explodable. Only Christopher Lloyd, as the evil Judge Doom with a scheme even more nefarious than the one hatched by the burghers of Chinatown, easily straddles the film's two worlds...
...still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission to emigrate. He desisted after a Soviet official warned an American counterpart that such a visit would doom forever any chance that the Ziemans would...
...Harvard education "resulted in an autobiographican blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped." Ours has, I am convinced, produced more than a watermark, but it has also eschewed filling up the mind's pages with indelible ink. While shrill voices today prophesy doom for a class educated as ours, it seems to me that some of us might just be able to meet Henry Adams face to face without shuddering...
...potentially divisive strategy, coupled with unrealistic demands, seems absurd to Jackson's more pragmatic supporters, many of whom are white liberals new to the cause. They fear that if Dukakis rebuffs Jackson at the convention, it could prompt enough disgruntled black voters to stay at home in November to doom the Democratic ticket...