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What has most impressed Western analysts has been the speed at which Gorbachev's changes have occurred. Indeed, that may prove to be a hallmark of the Gorbachev era. The party boss showed the same kind of decisiveness in April, when he suddenly increased his control over the Politburo. At the % time, he served notice that "revolutionary changes" would be the order...
...from terrorists' revenge. Besides, he said, terrorists are difficult to isolate, and if "you just aim in the general direction and kill some people, well, then you're a terrorist too." It was a candid statement of a fearful dilemma: placing an overriding value on human life is the hallmark of a moral nation, yet it puts that nation at a disadvantage in confronting zealots who live by the gun and bomb and are perfectly willing to spill innocent blood, and indeed their own, in a fanatic cause...
Irony serves to sharpen, and humor leaven, the mishaps that befall the book's eccentric families. Unrelentingly bleak, however, are the descriptions of cruelty to children, which are a hallmark of Gallant's stories in Home Truths. Indeed, with a mother like the matriarch in Saturday, there is no need to blame family tensions on Canada's ethnic problems. "She told each of her five daughters as they grew up that they were conceived in horror; that she could have left them in their hospital cots and not looked back, so sickened was she by their limp spines...
...card manufacturers have been alert to changes in the American family. Says Richard Connor, executive vice president of American Greetings: "The divorce rate has brought about new families, single fathers and working mothers. These new relationships open up new avenues for card sending." One of Hallmark's Mother's Day cards shows Mom at her office. Both American Greetings and Hallmark have cards with messages to "Mom and Her Husband" or "Dad and His Wife...
...industry leaders have responded to the competition by introducing their own yuppie-style cards. Hallmark has a new line called Modern Woman, with messages that often might seem risque for the venerable 75-year-old firm. Example: "You're such a totally together man. You're sensitive, kind, understanding and a good listener . . . Nice buns, too! Happy Birthday...