Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonid Brezhnev is no hero to Mikhail Gorbachev, who has dubbed his predecessor's 18-year reign the "era of stagnation." Still, there are reminders of that reign all over the Soviet Union, where everything from an icebreaker to a whole city bears Brezhnev's name. Last week, in a two- paragraph dispatch, the TASS news agency announced that three of those reminders are being eliminated...
...savior of his people, who nevertheless were shipped to the camps when the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. According to one version of + Rumkowski's fate, he demanded and got a special car to transport him and his family to Auschwitz, where, to his surprise, his reign ended in the gas chamber...
...garden. He is reinterred, but reappears several times before the authorities capture the offending grave robber, a woman whose parents had been arrested and killed by Varlam, and take her to trial. Her testimony, studded with flashbacks and Fellini-like dream sequences, tells the story of Varlam's brutal reign. There are false denunciations, mass arrests and mad ravings by the tyrant, who utters such Newspeak absurdities as "Four out of every three persons is an enemy of the people...
...have to do away with "isms", and start having a good time. Our bodily organs together make up the body that contains our individuality, and unless we start to realize that, oppression will reign in South Africa, baby seals will die pointless deaths, and Sally Struthers will weep herself to sleep each night...
...summit shapes up as one of the most interesting human encounters in years. It is going to be one "great communicator" against another chelovek s darom obshcheniya. Gorbachev has nudged Reagan aside as the central actor on the world stage. The Soviet impresario is young and just beginning his reign. Reagan is old and phasing out. Gorbachev has also become part of our politics: his 54% approval rating in the U.S. Gallup poll is higher than that of most American officials. In the secret files that are being sent to the President by his experts, Gorbachev is viewed as ready...