Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout history, empires in their death throes have often caused as much ; trouble as when they were in the ascendant. What spasms of military desperation might accompany the crumbling of the Soviet bloc? What if some new Chinese warlord in a breakaway province ended up with a few of his...
CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies too.
The new drugs are extending lives, but it is uncertain whether they are adding decades of productive life or merely postponing by a few years the eventual calamity of early death. And many of the lives being lengthened are either dangerous to others or sexually isolated and childless. Says a...
Ambitious goals, most of which are not realized. The film stints on narrative surprise. It prowls -- slowly, so slowly -- in search of grandeur, but it often finds murk. It permits a few inside jokes (a cartoon of a bat in a suit, drawn by Kane), but mines its main humor...
Corporate executives would like nothing better. Western businessmen have dreamed of immense markets in China since the days of Marco Polo; for American corporations in the past few years, the dream started to come true. From a mere $1.2 billion ten years earlier, U.S. trade with China rocketed to $13.4...