Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except Donna isn't really beautiful, and barely pretty. Her main attraction seems to be her Anglo looks, especially her blond hair and blue eyes. That she is wealthy and has a racist father no doubt adds to her appeal...
...there is any doubt to this being the case, La Bamba should remove it. The movie seeks the cliche at every point, and, to its credit, finds what it's looking for. But the distressing aspect of the film--aside from the abysmal acting and poor directing--is the politics behind the story...
...overcome resistance from conservatives among the Central Committee's 307 members, 60% of whom are holdovers from the Brezhnev era. Gorbachev is widely expected to seek a purge of such foot draggers at a national party conference that he has scheduled for June 1988. Nonetheless, the plenum left little doubt about his political strength, which was underscored by the naming of three of his supporters to the ruling Politburo. The new appointments meant that Gorbachev allies now occupy at least half of the 14 seats on the expanded Politburo...
Imagine, just as a mind game, a world without the cold war. What a strange and different place it would be! The bipolar world would grow other centers of power, ones based more on economic than on military might. Although the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would no doubt remain competitors, their rivalry would begin to resemble the ones that have always existed between powerful nations rather than a Manichaean struggle between two profoundly incompatible views about individuals and society. This could ease the nuclear threat that has long defined the cold war. Instead, that threat could serve to define...
There is an even deeper connection between Gorbachev's domestic reforms and his proclaimed foreign policy goals. "I don't remember who," Gorbachev said in his 1985 interview with TIME, "but somebody said that foreign policy is a continuation of domestic policy." That tenet, as he no doubt knew, was from Lenin: "There is no more erroneous or harmful idea than the separation of foreign from internal policy...