Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesting, "I thought the Cold War was supposed to be over." Back in the Soviet Union, seeking out the woman who had forwarded the presumptive secrets and trying to get at their source, he encounters glasnost and perestroika everywhere he turns. One Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess! Now we can look in our newspapers and confirm it!" Barley must tunnel beneath this thawing surface, test how far it takes...
Coming out of that meeting, I wondered if my friends thought I would start censoring everything about race. That's the last thing I want...
...usually, once the team hit Connecticut, everything was forgotten. They would ask the coach to crank up the radio, and the laughing would start again...
There is nothing folksy about Perelman. His favored car is a chauffeur- driven Bentley, and he has never owned a pickup. And if he is indeed the fattest of the fat cats, he didn't exactly start from scratch. He began sitting in on board meetings of Belmont Industries, his family's $300 million Philadelphia conglomerate, at age 11. At 35, Perelman got restless, moved to New York City and started collecting his own companies. Beginning with a chain of jewelry stores, he added MacAndrews & Forbes, a producer of licorice extract, in 1979. Then, with the help of financing provided...
...designer Patricia Field's New York City boutique, helped vogueing flourish after she went to a ball in the winter of 1987. Says she: "Here were these kids getting prizes and trophies for things they get made fun of for in the real world." She persuaded her boss to start a vogueing group called the House of Field...