Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have seen so many people in trouble who have lost near and dear ones, whole families," Gorbachev told Soviet television. "I have simply been shaken by everything I have seen in these two days. It is simply difficult to bear this in human terms. It is unbearable...
...Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city near the Turkish border, stacks of red, black or unfinished wood coffins were piled on street corners...
...site, rescuers worked feverishly with saws, torches, hammers and crowbars to free a family of seven discovered near the top of what was a nine-story apartment building...
Palmer makes little pretense to literalism, preferring to relate the composer's spiritual odyssey through stark images. Shot mostly in gritty black and white, the film often turns phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state...
...when Arafat formally asked for entry, Shultz consulted his top advisers. A broad array of officials counseled Shultz to grant the visa: Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; Michael Armacost, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; National Security Adviser Colin Powell; Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. The U.S. delegation to the U.N. strongly endorsed Arafat's admission. The arguments ranged from policy to practicality. A denial would undermine U.S. Middle East policy and would offend nearly the entire...