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...Many Soviet scholars regard the party bureaucracy as the main obstacle to reform and argue that Gorbachev, despite top-level housecleaning, has so far failed to sweep out conservatives and dead wood at the middle and local levels, where things get done -- or don't. Others say glasnost unleashed pent-up ethnic resentment. By attacking across the board, Gorbachev only produced confusion, resistance and rampant nationalism. Says a Foreign Office expert in London: "You don't have to be a Soviet conservative to think he should have exercised more control...
Though many lower-income white Americans would not go to the extreme of exhibiting such violence, they nevertheless harbor as much pent-up anger. They feel that policies such as affirmative action--established to bring African Americans and other minorities to economic and social parity--infringe upon their rights. After all, they contend, they are not responsible for the grave injustices perpetrated against African Americans 30, 50 or 150 years...
Eight of 18 lanes at the Hegyeshalom crossing were open as the jubilant East Germans drove through. They honked their horns, cheered and whistled, releasing emotions pent up by days and weeks of waiting for a decision by Hungarian authorities. Some refugees waved bottles of foaming champagne from the car windows...
...next stage of perestroika will probably be even harder than the latest. For market incentives to work, prices will have to be decontrolled -- a frightening prospect given the pent-up inflationary pressures. Rents and the prices of meat, bread and milk have been kept at the same level for decades; if decontrolled, they would be likely to rocket. Gorbachev understands the challenge. "Socialist markets cannot be formed without price reform," he told a party meeting in February. But having reached that daunting precipice, he blinked. Rents and basic food prices, he promised, will not be raised for at least...
...Even so, pent-up public enthusiasm for a new American musical of any kind was so great that despite bad word of mouth, some 90,000 customers came during previews, most paying the full price of $50. Says Rubin: "We made a profit during previews." The show built up advance sales as high as $10 million; they still stood at more than $3 million after opening. The day after the barrage of punishing reviews appeared, the box office sold almost $40,000 worth of tickets...