Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Union, they were noticeably hesitant about giving a direct answer. "Who can say?" one speaker finally ventured. "Look at how much Gorbachev's image has changed over the past few days. Who knows what it will be like in even a month's time?" If events of the past fortnight have taught any lesson, it is this: no one should rush to write off Mikhail Gorbachev...
What remains of the present Soviet government, meanwhile, is dissolving at breakneck speed. Institutions that had seemed both immutable and central to Soviet life are vanishing into thin air or being turned inside out at a dizzying pace. A citizen who returned last week from a fortnight out of the country might think he had awakened from a decades-long Rip van Winkle sleep, so totally had the country changed in his absence...
Army, which a fortnight ago beat last year's national champion, Air Force, 20-0, will play in the Eastern Finals in Orlando on December...
Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) has a little trouble with numbers. In the confessional, whispering his sins of the past fortnight, Joey can't quite remember how often he committed adultery. Was it twelve times on ten occasions with seven women? He is determined to get it right, and if Joey doesn't, Kline does. His quietly fanatical scrupulousness makes the scene worth preserving in any moviegoer's imaginary cinematheque. Joey's confession comes at the beginning of I Love You to Death, a comedy that is hilarious all the way to the opening credits...
After weeks of languishing in low gear, Chamorro's campaign revved up over the past fortnight. She is relying on voters' pent-up fury with ten years of Sandinista mismanagement. Inflation last year hovered around 1,700%, unemployment around 25%. Real wages have dropped more than 90% since 1981. "All she has to do is point to the Sandinista record," says Alfredo Cesar, Chamorro's chief adviser. "She doesn't have to convince anyone she's better than Daniel Ortega...