Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet leaders want a return to détente, as Andropov has said, why do they keep using terms like "the imperialist threat...
...USSR. Sick of bread and cheese. Read Soviet anti-imperialist proposals for the Indian Ocean from magazine rack. Eddy smokes last of Great Wall grass. Stand at window and imagine cranberry juice, oatmeal raisin cookies, pizzaburgers, Pack, Exchange addresses. Check connecting schedules. Arrive in Moscow a little before 5 p.m., 10 minutes late...
...unfinished film It's All True, is the wrinkled old retainer of one of Fitz's broken dreams. And steering the vessel through precarious waters is Klaus Kinski, once the psychotic stalker of Herzog's Aguirre, Woyzeck and Nosferatu, now a Kodachrome picture of the imperialist as jolly fantast. It is one of the many odd pleasures of Fitzcarraldo to watch Kinski's 80 or so teeth, which are usually forged into a vampire's carnivorous sneer, here forged into the semblance of a Teddy Roosevelt grin...
...audience during one of his talks. Bech glimpses a copy: "It showed himself, huge-nosed, as a vulture with striped and starred wings, perched on a tangle of multicolored little bodies; beneath the caricature ran the capitalized words INTELECTUAL REACCIONARIO, IMPERIALISTA, ENEMIGO DE LOS PUEBLOS." In Africa, Bech the imperialist discovers that the rate of cultural exchange is being alarmingly devalued: "The students found decadent and uninteresting Proust, Joyce, Shakespeare, Sartre, Hemingway-Hemingway, who had so enjoyed coming to Tanganyika and killing its kudu and sitting by its campfires getting drunk and pontifical-and Henry James. Who, then, Bech painfully...
...early June, the Soviet Union urged Iran to make peace with Iraq under some of the terms Iran had demanded but with "modifications." The Soviets even proposed that the two countries join them in establishing an "anti-imperialist front." Had the Soviets brought about a peace agreement, it would have enabled them to retain close relations with both Iran and Iraq, and would have greatly bolstered their position in the region. Khomeini said no. On June 21, he made a speech in which he not only rebuffed Moscow's peacemaking efforts but denounced the whole Soviet role in the Middle...