Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolution in 18th century France, the only thing more dangerous than a seducer's assailing a person of virtue is the seducer's somehow falling in love: the conflict between the rakehell's manipulative pride and his newly vulnerable passion ignites everything in its path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead or wishing they were. A novel of letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare...
...Eugene Terre Blanche that advocates total racial separation, will not field candidates in the election. "If the Nationalist government comes back into power," predicted an antigovernment campaigner at a multiracial Cape Town rally this month, "we will take this as a signal that you have rejected our path of peaceful protest." He warned of violence "on a scale never seen before...
...local press carries little news of the Soviet Union's experimentation with freer markets and economic incentives. Members of Cuba's elite who are aware of the Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series...
...stairway, an overwhelming solitude, fear and uncertainty. And despite everything, the feeling revolt was necessary." Thus Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the now banned Solidarity trade union movement, describes his political awakening a decade before Solidarity was born. Walesa's 604-page autobiography, A Path of Hope, published last week in France, contains no new or explosive disclosures, but it eloquently and simply portrays brave citizens pitted against a political tyranny. Without ever explicitly saying so, Walesa's story lays waste Communism's historic claim that it represents the interests of workers. Noted the French newspaper...
...crazy sixth sense. I like to think that the hard-nosed reporter in me just seeks out the right place at the right time. Regardless of the reason, the stars seem to shine when Eric Morris comes out. A couple of the luminaries who have happened to cross my path over the years...