Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain that Eastern Europe will ever regain cohesion. Radical reform and conservative intransigence make uncomfortable bloc fellows. Comecon, the alliance's economic union, is crumbling as members scramble to cut separate deals with the West. And the allies are at one another's throats: the Czechs and Rumanians denounce the Polish reformers for sowing chaos, the Poles denounce the Czechs for trampling human rights, the Hungarians denounce the Rumanians for mistreating their Hungarian minority. Gorbachev's phone conversation with Rakowski last week suggests that the Soviet leader finds better promise in an uncharted future than in a failed past...
...what Rolfe tells us. He is the narrator of the novel, which includes a fatal deer-hunting accident and Wade's role in two murders, one the bludgeoning death of his father. Rolfe is a teacher who is up on modern literary devices. Ambiguity and a tendency to make the teller as important as the tale are conspicuous elements of his account. Rolfe's self-consciousness can be intrusive, though not nearly so much as his need to be the village explainer. Seemingly unsatisfied with his powers of observation and ability to convey male emotions, he reaches for generalizations from...
...film producers and investing in TV-production companies. "The expertise is here, and foreign companies want to buy into it," says Sharon Armbrust, who follows the industry for Paul Kagan Associates, a consulting firm. For the Old Guard back at the Polo Lounge, the new competition is likely to make business a lot more rough-and- tumble...
...Largo Entertainment, a filmmaking company to be run by veteran producer Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard, Field of Dreams). JVC will give Gordon, 53, a former president of 20th Century Fox Films, a free hand in managing the new company while splitting the profits evenly with him. Gordon plans to make three movies in 1990 and five to eight pictures a year thereafter...
Hitler could not believe it. The French had been defeated, the war won, and the British must see reason. In a speech to the Reichstag, he jeered at the idea of Churchill's fighting on in Canada, but he offered to make peace. "I can see no reason why this war must go on," he said. Churchill decided not even to answer, leaving it to Lord Halifax to declare, "We shall not stop fighting until freedom is secure." Hitler was again lying. Just three days before his "peace speech" on July 19, he had officially told his commanders, "I have...