Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between two rival superpowers for military and ideological supremacy in all corners of a decolonized globe. Now comes Mikhail Gorbachev with a sweeping vision of a "new world order" for the 21st century. In his dramatic speech to the United Nations last week, the Soviet President painted an alluring ghost of Christmas future in which the threat of military force would no longer be an instrument of foreign policy, and ideology would cease to play a dominant role in relations among nations...
Palmer makes little pretense to literalism, preferring to relate the composer's spiritual odyssey through stark images. Shot mostly in gritty black and white, the film often turns phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state...
...already a mini-conglomerate, making its mark in three entertainment fields: music, movies and Broadway. On Geffen Records, the debut album by rockers Guns N' Roses was ranked No. 4 on last week's Billboard chart. The Geffen film division scored this year's sleeper hit, the comic ghost story Beetlejuice; Geffen Theater co-produced M. Butterfly, the 1988 Tony Award winner for best play...
...mine detector picked up a signal between two stones at the southwest corner. Harry Truman ruled against disturbing the ghost. Two years ago, Scouten tried a radar device and got an image in the same place. Among other decisions for George Bush will be whether to lift out that fragment of history and raise a few more glasses to the grand old home...
...playwright's more mature romantic comedies, this is not the typical show of Cowardice. Blithe Spirit is about a man whose marriage is threatened by the ghost of his first wife...