Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often the formula continued to pay off. The precredit sequence almost always packed more gasps, laughs and subplots into six minutes than most movies do in 60. It also meant that conventions established in the early films ran the risk of calcifying in the later ones. Plenty of cleavage, but...
For weeks the Reagan Administration has been complaining that Soviet foot dragging at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva reduced the odds for an agreement and for a U.S.-Soviet summit before the end of the year. But last week, in the latest in a series of...
Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for glasnost (openness),* demokratizatsiya (democratization) and perestroika (restructuring) have become the watchwords of a bold attempt to modernize his country's creaky economic machinery and revitalize a society stultified by 70 years of totalitarian rule. In televised addresses, speeches to the party faithful and flesh- pressing...
For all his cultural and political innovations, Gorbachev's greatest challenge remains the economy. He has vowed to double economic output by the year 2000, though his policies have not yet begun to produce measurable results. Some critics say the reforms proposed so far involve more tinkering than reconstruction. Still...
"He never tires of the great flood of paper rushing in upon him. None of the rest of us can imagine surviving the demands of such a career; Shawn flourishes." So wrote Brendan Gill a decade ago of longtime New Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and...