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Megs and Dave are polar opposites: the former is vibrant and optimistic, the latter depressive and nihilistic. These essential traits are elaborated endlessly. While the director, Carl "B.J." Fox, does an admirable job of shaping the characters, right down to their table manners and posture, the overall characterization is far too heavy-handed...
...will tensions be limited to the polar simplicity of white vs. nonwhite. For all Jesse Jackson's rallying cries about shared goals, minority groups often feel keenly competitive. Chicago's Hispanic leaders have leapfrogged between white and black factions, offering support wherever there seemed to be the most to gain for their own community. Says Dan Solis of the Hispanic- oriented United Neighborhood Organization: "If you're thinking power, you don't put your eggs in one basket...
...four days. It was from these little noticed conquests that there emerged the until recently little noticed Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. "The policy of Russia is changeless," said one disapproving observer, Karl Marx. "Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy -- world domination -- is a fixed star...
...still thinking in terms of us and them. Indeed, our thoughts are driven by these terms. who lived through the culmination of the Cold War under Reagan--especially for anyone who grew up during those years--to think of the Soviet Union in any way other than as the polar opposite of the United States. The America of my adolescence acquired its very identity in relation to The Russians...
...solar flares and testing the behavior of high-density computer chips in the intense radiation of the upper atmosphere. And deep in the interior, glaciologists at the Soviets' Vostok Base dug out ice samples that carry clues to the planet's atmosphere in layers laid down in the polar ice cap tens of thousands of years...