Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backlash in the Russian-speaking community, where a group known as Intermovement has emerged to challenge the Popular Front. Intermovement claims 90,000 members, mostly workers in industrial areas where ethnic Russians predominate. Economist Konstantin Kiknadze, an Intermovement leader whose mother is Russian and whose father is Georgian, charges that the Popular Front wants to "exchange a Moscow bureaucracy for one that is Estonian...
...stand-in for Weller is Martin (Christopher Collet), a gawky and irritable but predictably literate youth whose clumsy idealism embraces everything from ending the cold war to a metaphorically equivalent attempt to halt the chilly state of nonrecognition between his mother and father. The parents are former leftist activists who once lived for "the movement" and each other, and now find only regret in recalling either ardor. The father (Jeffrey DeMunn) is genial enough -- a mildly successful photographer who deflects his son's attempts to romanticize him -- although his affability fades into meanspirited vehemence at the least challenge to macho...
...million locked up for the duration." Poke. In French, he issues a command for his son Ian, 31, in Paris: "Call him at the restaurant. Tell him to get on the Concorde." Poke. Now, in English, he asks another son Kevin, 29, a workaholic like his father and heir apparent to the empire, "How is the market...
...Stand up to the challenge. Fight against overwhelming odds. Overcome the enemy." The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regularly exhorted his eldest daughter with such maxims. Benazir proved to be a keen listener. "In the stories my father had told us over and over again," she writes in her new autobiography, Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East, "good always triumphed over evil...
...Benazir Bhutto, last week's national elections in Pakistan must have seemed the storybook fulfillment of her father's fantasies. In the first truly free elections since the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq began his eleven years of autocratic rule, voters catapulted her Pakistan People's Party to dominance in the nation's politics and put Bhutto within reach of the prime- ministership once held by her beloved father. Dreams do come true. Scores do get settled...