Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CREEPING IN ON LITTLE CAT FEET FOR THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. This touring concert stomps into Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for a two-week visit with a 52-piece orchestra, twice the size of the usual Broadway pit band. Early on, overamplification and pretension threaten to do in the evening. Ultimately, though, Sir Andrew's lush, melodic theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout...
Moving it to this location is a mistake. It will threaten the peace and tranquility and growing sense of community on Green Street and Franklin Street extending from Central Square to Putnam Avenue...
...fact, is the fate of political and economic reform throughout the former Soviet bloc. At best, its countries probably will not and cannot become carbon copies of Western capitalist democracies. At worst, they are unlikely to revert to old-fashioned Marxism-Leninism in any form that would threaten a new cold war. But whether the hybrid political economies that do evolve represent a net gain for political and economic freedom or a descent into a kind of authoritarian chaos remains an unsettled question...
...long refused to join other industrialized democracies in providing direct economic aid to Russia until Moscow handed back sovereignty over the thinly populated islands, which the Soviet Union seized in the waning days of World War II. But Yeltsin had little bargaining room; nationalist opposition groups in Moscow threaten to call for the President's impeachment if he caves in to Japanese demands. Rather than return from Japan empty-handed, Yeltsin simply reneged. In Tokyo one newspaper blamed the cancellation on the Japanese government, saying it was the result of "poor diplomacy by third-class politicians...
...camp, led by the Russian Foreign Ministry, is willing to do business on Tokyo's terms: the islands returned in exchange for a formal peace treaty, never signed after World War II, and financial support for the comatose Russian economy. Opposed is an unruly chorus of nationalist politicians who threaten to overthrow President Boris Yeltsin if he surrenders any more of the "motherland." They are allied with conservative military men, still smarting from the "loss" of Eastern Europe, who fear that return of the islands will threaten the defense of the Russian Far East...