Word: threads
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...show is two hours of image after image. It is certainly too long for the traditionalist, who will be frustrated by non sequitur scenes that are not held together by even a thread of continuity, much less the development of plot or characters...
...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
Such intense loyalties are probably a product of Safire's childhood. The youngest of three sons of a successful New York City thread manufacturer, Safire was just four years old -- and his brothers were teenagers -- when his father died of lung cancer, leaving the family not poor, but pinched. (Their name was Safir, but the columnist added a final vowel in the 1950s to make spelling match pronunciation.) "Those were tough times," says Leonard Safir, who recalls that his brother Bill "was bounced around a lot as a boy." According to Janklow, Safire's mother taught her sons...