Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opening with eight songs from Achtung Baby and virtually ignoring their existence before The Joshua Tree ("Pride (In the Name of Love)" was the notable exception), U2 intentionally divorced themselves from their past and thus alienated and disappointed many in the crowd who prefer the simple passion of U2 past to the bizarre high-tech production of U2 present...
...transformations of Malcolm's life: from the street hustler who sold drugs and women into the charismatic spokesman for the Black Muslims who preached black self-determination and antiwhite rhetoric and, finally, into the orthodox Muslim who made a hajj to Mecca and embraced universal equality. The studio would prefer a brisk compression of the story. Twice in the past month, Lee and studio executives have faced off in shouting matches in which Lee cited Oliver Stone's 3-hr., 8-min. JFK. If a slain white hero like John F. Kennedy deserves three hours, Lee argued, then so does...
...think the reason more women are saying they prefer to stay home is the backlash message, not their really wanting to stay with their kids...
...life is quiet, full of music, books and dinners with friends. Gorbachev: "We love going for walks, to be in nature." Raisa: "He is exaggerating. He is always working. We have no time to be together. I hope all this will come." Gorbachev: "Nature is everything to us. We prefer to go for walks in winter, when there is a snowstorm. Everything disappears in a veil of snow. In these moments, you feel eternity...
...testified less to the strength of the opposition than to the President's mishandling of the threat. Had they simply let the demonstration go on, Yeltsin and his supporters in the Moscow city government could have pointed to the tiny turnout as proof that the great majority of Russians prefer democratic reform to any brand of authoritarianism, communist or fascist. Instead, the disparate opposition forces won a fresh reason to rail against the government. Wrote Eduard Limonov, in the conservative Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper: "The first beatings are usually followed by the first bullets and the first murders...