Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...included the President's face on wristwatches and ashtrays, and an unnerving number of government officials who are Saddam look-alikes. The extent of the idolatry renews the urgency of Vladimir Nabokov's warning that portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp...
...ushered in himself. In the past month the Kremlin has sent the army into the Baltic republics, tightened controls over television and radio, outlawed 50- and 100-ruble notes and seems to have shelved plans for introducing a market economy. Gorbachev has also authorized KGB fraud squads to stamp out so-called economic crime. A new era of repression seems to be in the making...
...learn a little technique doing theater, but the rest is inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining current French cinema as fully as any auteur...
...standard objections raised is that the ready availability of condoms will only encourage teenagers to have sex. "This gives a stamp of approval to something we feel is immoral and unhealthy," says Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. Some parents resent the loss of control over their child's decision; others think the sagging school system could put its dollars to better use. "The chancellor's primary mission is education," insists John Hale, a former member of the New York State board of social welfare. "He's not the health department...
Letters may be sent with a regular 25-cent stamp to the following address: "Any Servicemember/Operation Desert Shield/APO New York." For Army, Air Force and Marine personnel on land, the zip code is 09848. For Naval and Marine personnel at sea, the zip code is 09866. John T. Bennett Harvard Republican Club