Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who usually play this role -- Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Arnold Schwarzenegger -- seem to have been born to it, and often to very little else. What De Niro proves in Midnight Run is that it is a wonderfully actable part. What Willis proves in Die Hard is that it is not one you can ease through, especially if your preparation runs more to body building than to character building...
...other players, Grodin gives a nicely calibrated performance as the itch his captor cannot afford to scratch too vigorously. But it is De Niro's work that redeems an inherently improbable plot. He handles guns, quips and tight spots with the requisite elan. He brings something else to the part too: a deftly imagined sense of hard roads traveled before he hit this one, of a past lived, not just alluded to. When you root for him, you root for a man, not a killing machine...
Even as Mikhail Gorbachev extolled the virtues of perestroika in Poland, the potential pitfalls of demokratizatsiya continued to be embarrassingly apparent in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Delaware-size region that is geographically part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan but whose people are predominantly Armenian. After five months of protests by Armenian activists who wanted the enclave to become part of the Armenian Republic, the ruling council of Nagorno-Karabakh voted unanimously last week to secede from Azerbaijan. According to TASS, the council also decided to rename the area "the Artsakh Autonomous Region of Armenia" and to be governed by Armenia...
...part, Managua has amassed a sizable list of grudges and frustrations. Faced with continued economic decline and resentment at home, the Sandinistas felt compelled to rein in the opposition. At the same time, Managua blames the contras for scuttling the peace talks that broke off in early June and for subsequent cease-fire violations. Ortega was also displeased by Melton's practice of spending more time with opposition leaders than with Sandinista officials...
...markets important in an economy," he writes, "was their transmission of investors' judgments as to which industries and which companies were most likely to thrive and thus should find it easiest to raise fresh money. For professionals to invest huge pools without exercising that sort of judgment subverted some part of the legitimacy of market capitalism...