Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca decided last week to challenge GM to a race. At a dinner in Detroit attended by Wall Street investment analysts, he vowed that Chrysler will beat the Saturn to the showrooms with a similar small car called the Liberty. While Iacocca's statement created a stir in Detroit, it did not generate much excitement in state capitals. Reason: Chrysler may build the Liberty abroad, possibly in South Korea...
...outside world. In fact, very little was known in the West about Gorbachev until recently, except that he was a Moscow State University-trained lawyer and an agronomist, and a man of remarkable political staying power. Then, last December in Britain, Gorbachev and his wife created a stir with their unproletarian style--the London penny press called them the Gucci Comrades. Within days a Soviet media star was born who sported dark, conservatively cut suits, smiled and joked, and was fast on his feet in a way that led one British journalist to compare him to "a successful lawyer...
...later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said, "and I'm not into add-water-and-stir romances." She added, "We had a date to meet his mother. I guess that...
...vessels, has now bombed out with other allies. William Arkin, a nuclear-policy researcher at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, leaked a Defense Department contingency plan to station nuclear weapons in seven foreign countries and Puerto Rico if a war seemed imminent. The proposed deployment caused a stir in Canada, Iceland and Bermuda, and would violate a U.S. guarantee not to send nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico. It was not clear if the U.S. had notified any of the countries involved...
START WITH ONE minute of funky music, add five scenes of romance and gently stir in a generous number of dance routines. Next, omit acting, plot line and subtlety. Add violence to taste, Presto. You have concocted Fast Forward, this month's feeble effort at capturing on screen the ambitions and frustrations of those crary, but immensely talented, kids just have to dance. The only prestige that Director Sidney Poitier lends the film is his name in the credits. It becomes obvious, however, that it is not enough merely to import a big name to ensure cinematic success...