Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line with Gorbachev's calls for a more candid assessment of the past, the Soviet State Committee on Education in May canceled all traditional history exams, which are based on old-party-line texts. Instead, it ordered ungraded, open "discussion" groups of the sort held in Middle School 734, where teachers could judge their students' actual knowledge of the past. A June 10 editorial in the government daily Izvestia championed the decision and took the opportunity to blast the authors of old-line histories: "Immeasurable is the guilt of those who deluded generation after generation, poisoning their minds and souls...
...OPEN your eyes now. Look real close at Bentsen...
...they're doomed, besides th' "poison" in their blood, is what one of 'em calls th' "creeping disease" that infects th' whole West. That means these people are poor and stupid. You know they're poor 'cause their fridge is empty, n' you know they're stupid 'cause they open th' fridge door about every three minutes, as if somethin' would have appeared in there since th' last time they looked...
...Soviet Union spent last week dealing with the confetti -- literal and symbolic -- generated by its just ended 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference. Moscow street workers pulled down the festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later this month. Its purpose, declared the Politburo, would be "to discuss questions concerning the practical realizations of measures...
...behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper cup. "This is what they could have done to protect my client," he announced. He won the case. Ever since, chastened stadium concessionaires nationwide have sold beverages in paper cups...