Word: knocks
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During the Andropov era, the overwhelming majority of Soviets have lost their fear of the midnight knock on the door and the random arrest, but the KGB still moves with brutal swiftness to suppress dangerous displays of "nonconformity." One innovation was the creation of a KGB directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been...
...schedules had been different Harvard's Scott Fusco might have been the one to knock in the winning tally. The sophomore center said that if tomorrow's showdown with ECAC-leading Providence had been rescheduled for later in the season, he would have taken the ice against B.C. Fusco decided against playing the Eagles about two hours before the game...
...must order an F/A-18 financial review and report back on whether the Navy has acted lawfully, or it will refuse to approve more spending for the plane. Weinberger, in a three-paragraph reply, promised to do both. Democrats on the Hill are searching for big-ticket items to knock out of the defense budget. The buzzing about the Hornet may be music to their ears...
Perhaps as incendiary an example of this revisionism as Brustein has ever offered is the A.R.T.'s current Three Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a stage strewn with Producer toys. Earnest philosophizing about suffering and social evolution is played as vapid bourgeois chitchat. The fondest wish of the Prozorov sisters - to return to the gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with...
...angst of being a rookie again. He had been recruited by the Eastman Philharmonia to read selected passages from the speeches of Martin Luther King to a new score written with Stargell in mind by Composer Joseph Schwantner, 39. "When you play Carnegie Hall, the knees tend to knock," said Stargell. But last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back on benches with...