Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet intellectuals are hoping for short, sharp debate at the conference rather than an interminable series of droning speeches. They anticipate secret ballots of uncertain outcome, not the usual unanimous show of party cards. Many delegates are convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society...
...press. Pravda told of a meeting at an 8,000-seat soccer stadium in the west Siberian city of Omsk at which enraged rank-and-file members harangued party bosses because a final delegate list did not include those who had received the most votes in the secret ballot. "Party leaders who came to the meeting . . . went through some unpleasant moments," Pravda reported. In another case, the weekly magazine Ogonyok delighted its readers with a scathing satire on the back-room politics surrounding the selection of the archconservative Anatoli Ivanov, editor of the youth journal Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). Seasoned...
...making water run uphill. Since I loved my oak trees and my roses equally -- and since only a large saw could give the roses their place in the sun -- I decided to let nature take its course, which is a political act. Charles de Gaulle once said that the secret of political success is to foresee what is going to happen and then to support it. That is why my splendid oak trees shed their leaves on the graveyard of my roses...
...else's. To her, Picasso is mainly interesting as a celebrity with an odious character: a user, all but incapable of real affection, destructive to his friends, brutal to his women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving one in no doubt that he was to ordinary male chauvinist pigs what Moby Dick was to whales...
...scene was a curious mixture of high drama and slapstick satire. Michael Dukakis, only hours away from the climactic triumph of his primary season, tries to hold a private midnight meeting with Jesse Jackson. His Secret Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...