Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They should talk to the East Europeans who used Western TV to pull down the Iron Curtain...
Livingston could have settled for the ethnographic camp of the ball contests: a gay Pumping Iron, drenched in primping irony. Instead she found eloquent people with a fine sense of their flair and vulnerability. Paris Is Burning is a bijou hit in New York City and will be elsewhere, as audiences realize that the voguers are camera-worthy not because of their flamboyance but because of their home-truth humanity. As one of them says, "You've left a mark on the world if you just get through...
...Political institutions," said Lenin, "are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation." Gorbachev seems unable to control the vast and powerful institutions of the military-industrial complex, but the defense monster may eventually be tamed by the iron laws of economics...
...steadily worsening national crisis has been pushing President Mikhail Gorbachev toward a choice between massive repression and a negotiated compromise with the dissident forces. Since his sharp turn toward toughness and the conservatives last year, he seemed as likely to opt for the iron fist as for the bargaining table. In a dramatic agreement last week he signaled that compromise is the course he would prefer...
...biggest foreign policy reward to date. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, the 12-nation European Community voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...