Word: modern
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...field, not behind the desk, where North thrived. For some in the NSC, North was a modern musketeer living out foreign-policy fantasies. In the summer of 1984, as congressional aid to the contras was being cut off, North journeyed to a rebel camp in Honduras. "I told them I'd be personally responsible for seeing they got what they needed," he reported to a friend. He radiated impatience with bureaucratic desk jockeys and always seemed to be on the move. Once, after arranging to meet someone for a drink, he showed up 45 minutes late, barked, "Okay, bottoms...
...modern industrial miracle." That is how General Motors Chairman Roger Smith has characterized the 1984 merger between GM, the world's largest industrial company, and Electronic Data Systems, the biggest computer-services firm. But the marriage of the two giants has not been completely harmonious. From the beginning, there have been predictable problems in integrating EDS's data services into GM's far-flung operations. Worse, EDS Chairman Ross Perot, who is now GM's largest stockholder (11.3 million shares) and a member of the board of directors, has become a burr in Smith's side. Perot has publicly sniped...
...kind. Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive. The Musee d'Orsay is to this period what the Uffizi is to the Italian Renaissance or the Museum of Modern Art to the 20th century. There are some masterpieces it will never get, but as a discourse of objects from a given period, it has no equal. One is used to museums that get things three-quarters right and implore the visitor to be sanguine about their unrealized hopes. None...
...called the Milagro Beanfield War, a modern-day fable about a native New Mexican farmer who dares to stand up to Big Business developers. But for a while it looked as though the motion picture might be better remembered as Robert Redford's Alamo. Even before filming began, Redford was daunted by the task of rendering John Nichols' 1974 novel into a suitable screenplay. "There were several attempts made," he recalls. "It was very, very difficult." Then, shortly after arriving on location in New Mexico last summer, Redford was buffeted by bad weather and stormy relations with the locals...
Pasternak declined to join the chorus. "What I saw could not be expressed in words," Russia's greatest modern poet recalled in an unpublished memoir. "There was such inhuman, unimaginable misery, such a terrible disaster, that it began to seem almost abstract, it would not fit within the bounds of consciousness. I fell ill. For an entire year I could not write." What he had glimpsed was the consequences of Stalin's war against his country's peasantry, otherwise known as the collectivization of agriculture. Between 1929 and 1934, 20 million family farms had disappeared. So had the kulaks...