Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We have come here to witness a historic event," said West German diplomat Andreas Zobel.
Baker, sadly enough, never learned how or when to quit. She spent francs as fast as she earned them, and her last years were marked by humiliations: mortgage foreclosure on the rambling country home she built for the Tribe, increasingly inept and desperate "farewell" performances to pay overdue bills. But...
The tone of the title -- both grandiose and self-mocking -- accurately reflects the contents. Julian Barnes, whose third novel, Flaubert's Parrot (1985), earned an army of readers outside his native Britain, has here gathered a collection of prose pieces, nominally fiction, that cohere chiefly by virtue of being bound...
He added, however, that despite recent historic changes in the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union considers that "all our obligations remain in force."
As East Germany's Communists struggled to dampen the volatile situation, their brethren in Hungary were busy taking steps that, even a few months ago, would have seemed impossible. A majority of the 1,274 delegates at a Communist Party congress voted to rechristen themselves the Hungarian Socialist Party. Hungarian...