Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Competition reigns in the central market of Budapest on Tolbuhin St., as peppers ripen and vendors strive to attract customers. Built during the glory days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Tolbuhin market exhibits an atmosphere of abundance. Although Hungary has long existed in the shadow of the Soviet Union, the indoor market reflects none of the food shortages and the long lines that are characteristic of many Eastern Bloc countries. In the pictures shown, food vendors hawk their wares of sausages, eggs, peppers and tomatoes...
...Outland" does not even integrate humor and surrealism as well as G.B. Trudeau's "Doonesbury." Breathed's "Bloom County," though funny in its commentary on 1980s culture, was basically "Doonesbury" with funny animals. By the looks of "Outland," Breathed is still playing in Trudeau's shadow. If you want artistic adventurism in the comic pages, look to Trudeau's talking cigarette or his personification of Old Man History. Or look to Zippy the Pinhead. Or look to Life In Hell. Or even to Calvin and Hobbes...
UNITED NATIONS--Declaring the world "has lived too long in the shadow of chemical warfare," President Bush offered yesterday to slash U. S. stocks of such weapons more than 80 percent, provided the Soviet Union reduces to an equal level...
...making Bonn his first capital of call since the formation of Poland's democratically elected government, Walesa was drawing attention to a dramatic geopolitical shift: Western Europe is now the brightest beacon for East bloc countries as they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's mission also underscored a larger truth. In ways large and small, Western Europe is becoming a player in its own right on the world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never...
...Stones always encouraged a dynamic of dissipation -- "their satanic majesties" -- and loved flirting with the flame. That shadow Keith Richards talks about was always there, deeper and darker than with most bands. Mick was a dandy about his decadence; Keith was devout. One book about the Stones even insisted (over Richards' later bemused denials) that Richards had his blood washed, changed and purified...