Word: shoes
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Cumbersome, inefficient and corrupt, the Soviet economy functioned, such as it did, because it had its own internal logic. Moscow decreed the production of every tank, shoe and potato; every working-age person was supposed to have a job; and prices were stable. If the end result was not exactly according to plan -- a long-drawn-out failure, in fact -- at least the command system offered a coherent vision of what the plan...
...bygone film goddess whose camp theatrics provide the personal mythology of the gay prisoner brilliantly played by Carver. When life becomes awful, he escapes into reveries of scenes from her films. And when life becomes truly unsustainable, he joins her forever in a brightly lit world of soft shoe and smiles. The real star, as so often, is Prince, whose staging tricks are as spectacular as in his Phantom of the Opera. This time they serve a far better show...
...motives. Born in Santiago to a Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...
...late-night sketch to universally understood wisecrack. Today people still beg him to flash the insincere smile of the fading, macho heartthrob of the '50s and intone, "You know, dahlings, it is better to look good than to feel good." By Monday morning, from junior high cafeterias to white-shoe law firms, "Excuuuse me" had been replaced by "You look maaahvelous." He also struck gold with Willie, the nerdy messenger with a knack for misfortune, who wails in a high voice, "I hate when that happens," and with Ricky, the hapless Vietnam vet who never escapes the neighborhood, for whom...
...would lead it -- still gives some hope to Bush. A majority may yet decide, in Reagan's phrase, that America's future is too important "to be trusted to a blind date." Enough may agree again with what Bush said four years ago: "Maybe there is an old-shoe familiarity. People will give me credit because, see, I've been through the mill...