Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Balanchine dancers. Both women learned that the no-nonsense rules they live by do not apply at the Kirov. By American standards, classes were poky. Dancers might rehearse one day and never be seen again. The principals arrived with their personal coaches, rather like gymnasts in competition, and saw no reason not to slow down the music or change the steps...
...trouble within the Woman's Movement was that no issue galvanized feminist activity. The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified because so few women saw the gains as being immediate or verifiable. Other issues like pornography pitted female civil libertarians against their allies when many argued that the ills of censorship far outweighed any gains...
Under normal circumstances, investigators might have stopped there and at least re-examined Bracy's confession. When they did so later, they discovered that Bracy was wrong about how some alarms worked. In the spring of 1987, however, investigators were convinced that Bracy's confession was authentic. They saw the Moscow case much the way a detective might see a locked-room mystery in which the only occupant of a sealed chamber has been murdered. "We assumed it had happened," recalls one leader of the embassy investigation. "So there must have been...
...time, they might be able to devise ways to spoof or bypass one device after another. Eventually, they might make it all the way to the equipment inside the State Department and CIA communications vaults without being detected. But, says an official directly involved in this analysis, "I never saw a scenario that was credible." Declares another source: "If there had been a penetration, it would have been detected...
Fundamentalist opinion to the contrary, Lewis was not Satan's satrap. Anxious middle-class parents, who saw him as an emissary from a netherworld that was nearer at hand -- trailer-park America -- were possibly a little closer to the truth. Like Presley, Dean and Brando, he was a figure partially shaped by a popular culture that in the '50s was learning to cater almost exclusively to kids and their need for rebel figures. But there was also an element of discomfiting truth in the message he sent. The thing about the young Jerry Lee was that he was all fecklessness...