Word: revolutionize
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None of the images explain why a not-very-exceptional fellow ascended to the second highest office in the nation. Thomas Mehl, the museum's curator -- who is actually a graduate student at Eastern Illinois University ("I'll be getting six credits for this," he says) -- notes shyly that the...
New Order, the shadowy British syntho-dance band, has always reveled in its contradictions. By melding the nihilistic mettle of punk with microchip magic and a populist disco beat, it has sold millions of records without losing its elitist mystique. Progressive dance-floor hits like 1983's Blue Monday made...
The island is facing the ultimate hurdle of a revolutionary society -- whether its ideals can survive beyond the first generation. Subsidies from the former Soviet Union have been slashed, and the U.S. embargo continues to strangle trade, pushing Cuba's economy into an ever deepening slump. Castro's young successors...
First to take Gorbachev at his word were the intellectuals and opinion leaders who had long known that the Soviet structure was crumbling but had kept their head down and mouth shut. They began speaking and writing about the old taboos: the crimes of Stalin, of the KGB and even...
That revolution was taken over in July 1989 by the Siberian coal miners when they began a strike that shook the economy and the communist bosses. The grimy miners, Remnick reports, were forging a link between the urban intellectuals, the nationalist movements in non-Russian republics, and "the political uprising...