Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...
...prestige, the cost of which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These guys really know how to write a letter...
...time of glasnost in the Soviet Union, brutal repression in China and political unease in the rest of Eastern Europe -- Poland had launched a democratic experiment unique in the Communist world. "It makes us rethink the proposition that Stalinism is eternal," said a U.S. official. "Now we don't know for sure that Stalinism is above being reformed...
...still very, very murky," he stressed. Washington is simply unable to discover who is in and who is out among the Chinese leadership, let alone predict what actions they may take. The President disclosed that he personally attempted to telephone "a Chinese leader" (Deng Xiaoping, whom Bush got to know in his Beijing days), but "I couldn't get through...
...types have gone on for years, as sailboats topple in the wakes of motorboats. But this year the most visible -- and audible -- combatant promises to be one of the smallest and peskiest of them all: the "personal watercraft," better known by Kawasaki's trademark Jet Skis. "Everyone I know has had at least one close call," says board sailor Barbara Glunn in Miami. "And it usually happened when one guy tried to beat the antics of another...