Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City, with its interweaving cast of gay and straight characters, proved that Armistead Maupin was a master of the big canvas. Working on a smaller scale in MAYBE THE MOON (HarperCollins; $22), Maupin seems to have lost his sense of perspective. The story, about Cady Roth, a dwarf actress who can't find work, canters along in Maupin's usually breezy fashion, but it doesn't go anywhere. Cady's friends -- her naive roommate who has bad taste in men, a gay best friend who challenges Hollywood's treatment of homosexuals, the black single father who becomes her lover...
Third world countries, for their part, cannot view the U.N. as only a glorified relief agency, but rather as a cooperative body that requires give and take. Arranging a compromise agreement on U.N. restructuring will require diplomatic efforts that will dwarf Jim Baker's Middle Eastern diplomacy...
...with many another Huston project, the minor characters soon become more diverting than the principals. An eloquent beggar child turns out to be a 40- year-old dwarf, his growth stunted "with stories, with truth, with warnings and predictions." Everyone else in Green Shadows has a similar penchant for the exaggerated anecdote ("Getting to the point," observes one, "could spoil the drink and ruin the day"). Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable...
...through the streets, catching innocent bystanders in the crossfire. In the week since independence was recognized, more than 100 have died, and the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army has refused to intervene. Because of the close intermingling of Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats, some fear the casualties could eventually dwarf the toll in Croatia, where ethnic violence has taken more than 10,000 lives since last summer...
...totally dominant position in the years to come," says Simon Petermann, professor of international relations at Brussels Free University. "That's a position that, in many respects, the Germans have long held. The difference now is that the old formula casting Germany as an economic giant and a political dwarf no longer holds true...