Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When LeMond decided to become the world's best, there was but one course to follow. Six years ago, with a new bride and his odd American dream of winning the Tour de France, he moved to Europe for the coaching and conditioning that were available only in the sport's backyard. He did not underestimate the task: "It is as though a Frenchman moved to the United States at age 19, couldn't speak English and tried to make it in baseball...
...were cut down in hails of automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more than a week the Hungarian dream of independence was over. A puppet government headed by Janos Kadar, 44, set about "normalizing" the country through executions, show trials and brutal repression. The purge made Kadar the most hated man in Hungary and won him the epithet the "Butcher of Budapest...
...when compared with the thick, spontaneous and (it was assumed) emotionally stronger surface of late abstract expressionism. None of that seems a problem anymore. Rosenquist's ingenuities $ as a formal artist have floated to the top. And the subject is clearer: the vicissitudes of a certain kind of American dream...
Like millions of others during those dreadful years, Saint-Exupery had ample reason for anguish. His dream of defending his country from Nazi invaders was interrupted by the fall of France in 1940. The collaborationist Vichy government, hoping to appropriate some of his fame and prestige, named the writer-pilot to a post on its National Council. He scornfully refused from a self-imposed exile in the U.S., where he continued to write books and advocate American intervention...
While he pursues radical farm policies in the south, Mengistu remains at war in the north. "If he could solve the security problems in his country," says Gunter Verheugen, African-affairs spokesman for the West German Social Democratic Party, "then Mengistu might be able to accomplish his dream of making the country self-sufficient in food and improving the standard of living of his people." That is not likely in the foreseeable future. Ethiopia's standing army of 300,000 soldiers is the largest in black Africa, but it remains vulnerable to guerrilla actions. A lightning strike by the Tigre...