Word: dustbins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spiteful critics don't consign a film to the dustbin, sooner or later enthusiastic viewers will. But the gradual degeneration of the print should only serve as further encouragement to rush to the HFA while the going is still relatively good...
...dustbin of history overfloweth in Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium (Knopf; 332 pages; $24). After journeying 40,000 miles through the crumbling Soviet + Union between 1989 and 1991, the Polish journalist leaves the gloomy impression that debris is piling up faster than it can be removed. The windows of his railroad car frame pictures of rusted tanks and artillery sinking in the mud. From the air, polluted lakes stare back like the cloudy eyes of dead fish. At the Yerevan airport, Kapuscinski finds four broken toilets and hundreds of travelers awaiting flights for days and sometimes weeks...
...Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively in Albanian warehouses. Last week the government announced a solution: millions of volumes will be reprocessed into cardboard. The dustbin for his history draws closer...
...such, you may place me in the dustbin of history as all haters... have been placed," he said...
...event that the committee will fail to vote before Congress recesses for the holidays, Clinton will be forced to decide whether to resubmit Halperin's name in January and risk yet another bruising battle. If previous White House behavior offers any guide, his nomination may be headed for the dustbin...