Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every evening, rain or shine, a crowd forms around a huge cross of flowers lying in the center of Warsaw's Victory Square. This floral tribute to Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last year, has become the most potent political symbol in Poland today. Three times the government has swept it away, and three times it has been rebuilt by the crowds who come to pray and intone hymns. The cross is tended by a group of women who patiently replace wilted flowers every day under the watchful eyes of militiamen. Late each night the police move...
...average of 8 Ibs. during their time on the SPE diet, and, as a bonus, their serum cholesterol levels dropped 10%. How soon will SPE be on your grocer's shelf? Not for a long time, if ever. Though no serious side effects were reported, SPE is "potent stuff," says Dr. Charles Glueck, who headed the study. The compound has been classified by the FDA as a drug. When it becomes available, several years from now, it will be sold by prescription only...
...heroes' spending helped cause nearly uncontrollable inflation; their broken promises of a glorious international role contributed to the humiliating loss of confidence in American power that reached its nadir with the Iran hostage crisis. White pinpoints those trends--economic aimlessness and national impotence, along with the increasingly potent reign of television--as leading America to its conservative backlash of 1980. That landslide, to White, was the ultimate repudiation of impotent Democratic goodwill...
White's discussion of his final major reason for the Reagan victory--the governor's obvious mastery of television, a medium more potent than ever--is less illuminating that his analysis of economic malaise and national impotence. But his dissection of Reagan's manipulation of the media, and through it the nation, is more complete than any other. And there are, of course, the incomparable White anecdotes. He tells of a moment during the 1968 Republican convention, when a Reagan operative sought to switch a delegate from Nixon to Reagan...
...falters a bit, but by then Frayn has piled up a mountain of laughs. He has also contributed a highly perceptive analysis of the fragile, precarious nature of that potent illusion known as theater. If Pirandello had ever written a farce, this would...