Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lorax, it seems, a villain fells a forest to make garments called thneeds, and Dr. Seuss urges, "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack." Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler. After his son read the book, says Bill, he "came home and labeled me a criminal." One pupil was said to have burst into tears when he saw his father pruning an apple tree, supposing he was trying to cut it down...
...heart is good, but his head is clouded: he has no thought for the practical realities of her future in an alien land, only for the sweet moment of his own chivalry. Even that fails. In this revamping of Madama Butterfly, Chris cannot get to Kim before heading home...
...industry's critics argue that the U.S. should be just as responsible for the hazards of the products it sells overseas as for the goods it consumes at home. Says Representative Chester Atkins, a Massachusetts Democrat: "Our trade policy sends a message to our partners that Asian lungs are more expendable than American lungs." Many Asians voice resentment about that notion. At the hearings in Washington last week, Thai National Assembly Member Surin Pitsuwan asked, "Where is the concern for humanity once felt by the United States...
...panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight to the Kremlin television studio and accused conservatives and radicals of creating an atmosphere of "despair and uncertainty...
...domestic problems, Gorbachev might be looking to Washington to bail him out of his crisis with pledges of cooperation and signs of acceptance. That would be a mistake. Not even a series of major triumphs abroad could compensate for the lack of a blueprint to make perestroika work at home...