Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When that reprimand was made public this summer, Lagueux retaliated with calls--so far unheeded--for investigations of Dershowitz's conduct during a 1987 trial...
...peace seems to be breaking out in many parts of the world. Even Moscow, the international capital of Marxism, has openly succumbed to the lures of creeping capitalism. To Francis Fukuyama, 36, deputy director of the State Department's policy- planning staff, all these events point to something of far broader significance than the reform policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. "What we may be witnessing," he writes, "is not just the end of the cold war, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind...
...atmosphere at TriBeCa will be a far cry from that of the big studios. "We're more relaxed," says Jane Rosenthal, a CBS and Walt Disney veteran hired by De Niro as his executive vice president. "My two dogs come to work with me." There will also be some indulgences at the film center. One will be the TriBeCa Bar and Grill, a restaurant that De Niro is opening with financial investments from such pals as Sean Penn, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. De Niro's new Hollywood-on-the-Hudson may be an upstart, but it will not suffer...
...Hitler ordered the start of an all-out drive on Moscow, which the Wehrmacht now surrounded on three sides, only 20 to 30 miles outside the city. One infantry unit got as far as the suburb of Khimki, from which the Germans could actually see the towers of the Kremlin, but that was as far as they could go before Soviet tanks drove them out again. And all along the front, the Soviet defenders held fast. Then, on Dec. 6, the Soviets somehow produced 100 new divisions and launched a counteroffensive that sent the Germans reeling back 50 miles...
Hitler decided to rethink the whole strategy. The French defense was based on the "Maginot Line," a chain of fortifications that stretched 200 miles along the frontier from Switzerland north as far as Luxembourg. Built at a cost of $200 million (a substantial sum at a time when a workman earned about $3 a day), the Maginot Line was considered invulnerable; its strongest outposts bristled with antitank guns, machine guns and barbed wire, and boasted concrete walls 10 ft. thick as well as supply depots 100 ft. underground. To the north of the Ardennes Forest, which was only lightly fortified...