Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, only half of the actors slip comfortably into the sharp-edged comedy-of-manners mode, while the others flounder midway between some sort of modern naturalistic something-or-other and a very stilted ultra-Victorian melodramatic bluster...
Careful, there. This is no ordinary statue you're adjusting, but one representing the father of the state, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate...
Unless Gorbachev can deliver on his promises of a better life, his popularity is likely to slip further. What may work to Gorbachev's benefit is the fact that only one-fourth of those polled expect their lives to improve. With expectations that low, Gorbachev may never find himself in the ratings cellar...
...heavy workload. The agency admits that 1 out of every 3 callers to the tax-information hot line is given a wrong answer, and some employees have doubled up on their responsibilities. The IRS says the processing of returns will probably not be affected, although some cheats could slip by undetected...
...Crimson nailed the goalpost three times in the first three minutes, but recovered to slip five other shots into...