Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foster could speak eloquently of the rank underside of stargazing -- of fandom fanned into fanaticism. Understandably, she does not speak on the subject (just last week she canceled an appearance on the Today show because Hinckley was to be mentioned), or on other aspects of her personal life. She knows that Hollywood movies are all about the marketing of emotion, and that it is difficult for actors, the onscreen vessels of emotion, to keep their lives sensible and their sensations private. Nonetheless, Foster is determined to separate public persona from private person...
...President said, "I don't have anything to say about that scum Plekhanov! He's not human! Do you think he's worried about his country? No way -- he's only after his rank and filthy life...
...integral part of social interaction. As any cattle rancher can attest, cows frequently mount each other. Apparently this ensures that all the females coordinate their reproductive cycles and then produce their calves at the same time. Female rhesus monkeys mount other females as a way of establishing a dominant rank in their troop's hierarchy...
...disappearance of the party and its minions was all the more stunning because it had been so ubiquitous in Soviet life. Its 300,000 apparatchiks, backed by a party-cell structure embracing 15 million rank-and-file members, supervised everything from kindergartens to strategic nuclear rocket forces. Advancement to the upper levels of politics, industry, army and intellectual life was virtually impossible without party membership. The party owned 5,254 administrative buildings, 3,583 newspapers and 23 resorts and sanatoriums. Its cash assets last week were put at about 4.5 billion rubles. But as last week demonstrated, there...
...Gorbachev's decision to quit the party had the smell of desperation; it is certain to have no impact on the accelerated breakup of the Union and does little to burnish the Soviet leader's credentials as a front-rank reformer. "It would have been greatly to his advantage had he done this a year ago," said Eduard Shevardnadze, a former Gorbachev ally who angrily resigned as Foreign Minister last December and quit the party in July. "But now? It is too late...