Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since I had the use of reason, the name Jesus Christ was one of the most familiar in my house and in school during my infancy and adolescence. I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure...
...Kremlin officials. Bronfman's stated objective was to ask the Soviets to lift emigration restrictions for Jews who want to leave the Soviet Union and to allow religious freedom for Jews who wish to remain. Earlier this month Bronfman made another visit to Moscow, and last week sources familiar with the talks confirmed that he has been serving as a conduit in tentative negotiations between the Soviets and Israelis, whose diplomatic relations were broken off by Moscow following the 1967 Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel. The highly secret purpose of these talks, say these sources: to engineer...
...story should seem familiar: 1984 a year late. But as in so many key movies of the decade (Blade Runner, Diva, the Mad Max films), texture is text here, submerging the plot in a garage sale of 20th century detritus. Brazil is a place, like Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap...
Mickey Mouse pranced across the entire front page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many...
...polls had not yet closed last week in Guyana when familiar cries of "fraud" rang out. As in every election in the South American country since it was granted independence from Britain in 1966, opposition politicians and others charged that the polling and the vote count were rigged to favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte...