Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centralization of the Soviet economy, his program has in fact further centralized decision making. The idea is to keep those decisions out of the hands of conservative regional officials. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is now available, most of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize, are still banned. Glasnost, it is clear, can go only so far without provoking retrogressive reaction. For that reason, Sergei Grigoryants, editor of a dissident journal named Glasnost, was jailed for a week earlier this month. When he was released, he discovered that...
...result of the unusual transatlantic production, there was a hefty bill for the transport and lodging of the creators and the Anglo-American cast. On Broadway, some 20% of each week's box-office income was set aside for royalties to the creative team, including Novelist King, who otherwise had no role in the show. Another debated expenditure was $500,000 plus for a print, poster and TV ad campaign in New York City before the show opened, much of it teasingly mysterious rather than hard sell...
...Regan stormed out of the White House. As he rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
After all, there is always one more thing to learn about the soul next door that not only renders that soul more distinctive, but also more worthy of our consideration. To paraphrase a certain cautious novelist: "Actually, with a little perspicacity, one might learn many curious things about [one's neighbors], things that made them so different from one another that [the generalized Neighbor], except as a cartoonist's transient character, could not be said to exist... No, the average vessels are not as simple as they appear: it is a conjuror's set and nobody, not even the enchanter...
...their earlier work, Director Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Novelist Peter Handke (The Left-Handed Woman) have charted some pretty bleak terrain. Here, though, they boldly go where just about everyone has gone before, into the realm of romantic fantasy. You could say this film is It's a Wonderful Life as told by an angel tired of earning his wings. But it's lots else. It's a fable about the search to reconcile knowing with feeling, purity with experience. It's the story of any man shackled by the expectation of perfection and aching to caress the soft curves...