Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timing of the offensive may also reflect the guerrillas' unease with developments in Eastern Europe. Just two months ago, F.M.L.N. Commander Joaquin Villalobos admitted that his forces could no longer "aspire to an armed revolution that the Soviet Union will subsidize." Since then the pace of change in Eastern Europe has accelerated so quickly that the F.M.L.N. may be worried that it will be forgotten by its Communist patrons. Toward that end, the F.M.L.N. may have been reminding both the Cristiani and Bush administrations that with or without foreign Communist support, the guerrillas must be part of any eventual settlement...
...Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example, it freights the naive scrubwoman anger of Pirate Jenny with sophisticated detail that is out of character, and enervatingly transforms the last syllable of the second-act finale from a strident long vowel to a swallowed short one. Jocelyn Herbert's cumbersome set obstructs movement, draining energy. But emotion intensifies after...
...some students' holiday plans reflect other priorities...
...estimation, irresponsible delays and irresponsible taxation doesn't reflect good public policy," said Rep. John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee and a gubernatorial candidate...
Jordan's new Parliament is the first to reflect Hussein's decision last year to sever the country's administrative and legal links to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Half the members of the previous Parliament had theoretically represented the West Bank; all members of the new Parliament are residents of the East Bank...