Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawbacks are attributable mostly to ideological posturing; in spite of them The Soviet Viewpoint is without question a valuable addition to the literature on U.S. Soviet relations. For detente to be successful. Americans and Russians must come to a better understanding of each other's positions. Even a peek at what Soviet leaders are thinking increases our comprehension of the USSR. And in some small but useful way, the cause of detente is thereby furthered
...PUNKS IN HARVARD SQUARE have become fixtures as familiar as the leafletters and construction workers. Stationed at the T stop next to At of Town News, these black leather-clad youths with shaved heads and chains neatly part the otherwise amorphous crowd Steer clear, take a peek, then maybe chance another look, but don't gawk-everyone reacts the same way. Yet it doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort...
...short and quickly read Yet Didion's eloquence and the tragic, almost absurd nature of her subject gives this book a weight and power that transcend the limitations imposed by the number of pages. Didion provides not only a brutal look at EI Salvador, but also an agonizing peek at the bell the human condition sometimes becomes...
This figurative iron curtain ensures that the West has little idea about what goes on in eastern bloc countries. An occasional book, like Hedrick Smith's The Russians, provides a brief, fascinating peek behind the veil, but for the most part a state of uneasy ignorance prevails. And when Western leaders claim one day that the Soviet Union is a crumbling grant only to assert the next that the country has achieved nuclear superiority over the United States and Western Europe combined, ignorance gives way to confusion and fear...
...cauterizer of the German body politic. In the 1977 telefilm (reduced from three hours to 110 minutes for theatrical release), he portrays Hanni and Xaverl not simply as predator and willing prey but as victims of both economic hypocrisy and puritan prurience. Nor is the viewer exempt: he must peek at Hanni's lovemaking through frosted train windows and the billowing lace curtains of the middle class. The leading actors are exemplary: Trissenaar, porcelain-skinned and angel-faced and scarily self-possessed, and Raab, the perpetual slow schoolboy horrified by the games adults play...