Word: turgid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this be the same TASS that has been known chiefly for its dull, turgid reporting and its habit of tucking important news into the last paragraph? The captive wire service that was run by and for the Soviet government, peddling propaganda before facts? It is indeed, but something remarkable has happened to the 1,300 reporters, editors and photographers who are currently working in 113 countries for TASS. After Gorbachev took over in 1985 and launched the era of glasnost, the news agency faced a new challenge: to enhance its credibility by reporting more aggressively, more thoroughly and more accurately...
...such bright spots mainly show how good Gromyko's book might have been had he not chosen to keep his tail between his legs. Memoirs is too often a turgid history cum travelog speckled with diplomatic slavishness. "Staff at the Foreign Ministry did not discuss the purge trials," he says of the Stalinist era. "As diplomats, we avoided the subject." As a result, his book is destined for the dustheap of famous-people-I-have-met books...