Word: thaws
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...that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after all, the Promised Land-a feeling that 132 other Cubans were allowed to share recently, when the Castro regime, in a small bid to thaw chilly relations with the U.S., gave them permission to emigrate...
This is an unfortunate reminder for Milos Forman. In 1968 he was still making movies in Prague; after seeing Hair in New York, he wanted to bring the musical to his home town. The 1968 Soviet invasion cooled that dream, and it did not thaw until Forman met Co-Producer Persky at a party (for Cuckoo's Nest) in Manhattan three years ago. "These people fought the good fight, and they shouldn't be ashamed of it," Forman says of his guests for the day. "We think the time to make the movie Hair...
...route covers mountainous regions where there have been earthquakes, and broad areas of permafrost and innumerable bogs where the ground heaves during the short summer thaw; pressure tests of the Siberian soil are conducted at an underground Permafrost Institute at Yakutsk. Some 3,700 bridges and culverts must be built across rivers and streams. Subway experts from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev have helped drill tunnels (one of them 9.5 miles long) through seven mountain ranges...
...described the greater freedom that the new constitution will permit within China in terms that eerily echoed Mao's 1956 campaign "to let a hundred flowers bloom," an invitation rescinded when it produced unexpectedly virulent criticism of the government. Yet there have been many signs that the limited thaw the new regime has signaled is genuine. The new constitution would restore the so-called office of the procuracy, which before its abolition in 1975 was responsible for screening evidence before prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag...
...thaw includes the arts as well...