Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating results...
...domestic morass. If so, he may be disappointed. The key ingredients for change in the Communist world are already well identified, the recipe lifted from a Western cookbook for democracy. Separate Party from State. Add opposition parties and free elections to State. Briskly mix in press, speech and travel freedoms. Top with rights to assemble, strike and form labor unions. Bake in oven turned to Free Enterprise setting. Then hope that the inevitable spillover of chaos -- including the inevitable hard economic times -- doesn't cause the Democracy Souffle to fall...
...problem, of course, is that there is no fail-safe recipe for democracy. While Hungary and Poland have successfully evicted the old chefs from the kitchen, they are having a hard time settling on who will help concoct a different mix. After years of popular revolt, the Poles have installed a Solidarity-led government, but that new leadership is brushing up against its own lack of experience. Within the Sejm, Solidarity is having problems enforcing party discipline. Out in the provinces, the government is having an even tougher time persuading Communist officials to relinquish their privileges, let alone their posts...
Just in case anyone in the audience thought that Bob Dylan might be mellowing in old age, Wednesday night the raggedy man of rock decisively laid those fears to rest. Singing before an odd mix of ties and tie-dyes at the Boston Opera House, Dylan stormed through a hard-edged set that emphasized his independence and uncompromising nature. His band was tight, his guitar sounded terrific, and he even threw in a large chunk of the old songs that made him famous. If this seems like a good recipe for a concert, it was. Sort...
...affordable consumer goods and protected the pay of enlisted men against U.S. economic sanctions. But as the angry general now wreaks revenge on his military foes, he runs the danger of straining the old loyalties. The distrust, hatred and fear injected into the army are a potentially combustible mix...