Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action ranges across North America, France and darkest Russia, none of it convincingly in focus. In New Hampshire, for instance, Author Hyde has the Soviet bad guys, who are driving a small runabout, stop off at a farm to pick up a cord of wood, a quantity that would founder anything short of a sizable truck. Soviet village scenes do not seem any more real. The book's most enduring enigma is why, having equipped his tale with the scaffolding of romance, Hyde keeps his reunited lovers separate for all but a few exceedingly decorous pages...
Marty even invents rock-'n-roll in his short visit to the 1950s, when he plays a 1956 Chuck Berry song to an audience that includes Berry's brother--who quickly calls up Chuck to tell him that he has discovered the sound that the founder of rock has been looking...
...Moon went into federal prison in Danbury, Conn., nearly twelve months ago after his conviction on charges of income tax evasion. He claimed that the funds belonged to the church and that he was a victim of religious persecution. Released six months early for good behavior, the Korean-born founder and spiritual leader of the Unification Church must still spend a month and a half as a resident of the Oxford Project, an inmate-rehabilitation center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Waving to reporters but refusing to comment as he emerged from prison, Moon, 65, was whisked to his estate in Irvington...
...Solo, co-founder of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and former campaign manager for Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D. Colorado), will conduct an analysis of the nuclear freeze campaign and its historical role in shaping policy and public support for new definitions of national security...
...York is particularly unselfconscious about money and materialism, which is fine by the immigrants. Joanne Oplustil is founder of the Church Street Merchant Association's refugee program, which ministers to Southeast Asians. "Four years ago when he arrived," Oplustil recalls, "one man was thrilled to have a bicycle. Then a big TV, then a video recorder. Now," she sighs, "he loves to talk about owning a Mercedes." The city's notorious brusqueness, off-putting to many American visitors, also seems to suit the ambitious arrivals. When a group of Chinese recently bought a Flushing commercial building to renovate, the mood...