Word: silents
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...Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps spinning until we are in Weimar * Berlin, with Madonna in Dietrich drag warbling Teutonic twaddle: ''Like a wer- gin, touched for the werry vurst time.'' She is Carmen Miranda (Going Bananas), Gene Kelly (La Isla Bonita), the Brigitte Helm robot goddess from the silent film Metropolis. She saves her best anachronistic joke for last: the steamy Justify My Love is performed in stately cadence and Edwardian morning coats. It might be the Ascot Gavotte from My Fair Lady. Nostalgia, as wispy as the scent of marijuana that permeated the SkyDome, is itself decadent...
...your word was good. Now you look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done all the bad things that have happened, but I lay it all on . you anyway because you've always said that you're responsible for order in Haiti.'' Taken aback, Cedras was silent. Then, says a person present that day, ''he tried some country lawyer games about how to interpret Governors Island, and Larry walked out.'' Late Friday night, TIME has been told, Cedras and Francois tried another ploy. A new letter was drafted and this time actually sent. Cedras and Francois would...
...itself doesn't appear to be that great. A short distance away is a city of high rises that today is completely deserted. If you're looking down on it from a helicopter, it's not at all apparent why this is so. But one knows there is a silent enemy lurking there.'' The enemy, of course, is radiation. There have been reports that some people, including looters, did not realize the danger. A Soviet newspaper disclosed that police sentries and, later, burglar alarms were used to protect Pripyat's abandoned dwellings. Beyond that, Soviet militia units and troops...
...Oleg Vinogradov's fanciful way of explaining how he put iron willpower into his prize ballerina. Asylmuratova (Ah-sil-mu-rah- tova) has an expansive, luscious quality. In a tantalizing way, she seems to represent the past and the future: her round face and small, full mouth recall a silent-film heroine's docility, yet her bold attack is as fresh and fearless as tomorrow. She was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, deep in Central Asia. Both of her parents were dancers. At ballet school in Leningrad, her talents were spotted early. Says Vinogradov: ''I saw she had unique possibilities...
Veterans of American wars have been memorialized in literature, lore and granite. But for the fighters in one bitter conflict, a 1985 commemorative postage stamp has had to suffice. The Korean War is not an event that has lingered in the public memory; its veterans, members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify...