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...Kremlin conference on Friday, Gorbachev described the combatants as "a handful of militants, irresponsible adventurers and shadow economy dealers" and cast the conflict partly as an effort to undermine his policies. "Perestroika is like a thorn in their flesh," he said. "They are unable to launch a frontal attack on it, so they cling to tension on an ethnic basis...
Taking the part seemed an odd choice for Freeman, who had remained prickly about the kinds of roles offered to black actors, but in Fast Black he saw a chance to flesh out the stereotype. "I had no intention of wearing crushed- velvet jump suits, big hats or high-heeled pumps," he says. But the changes went far beyond the cosmetic, as Freeman transformed what could have been another cliched pimp caricature into a harrowing portrait of a desperately brutal man. The performance won three major critics awards, an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Freeman his first crack...
Though distant and grainy, this photograph of a Chinese man standing down a tyrannical regime is the most extraordinary image of the year. It is flesh against steel, mortality against the onrush of terror, the very stuff of courage. TIME presents 20 pages of other amazing pictures from a most astounding year...
Something is wrong in Culver City, and Wheeler (Richard Nash) must fix it. This situation for Wheeler is critical because he has developed flesh-consuming skin condition. The city is literally "eating [him] alive...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...