Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...35th anniversary of his accession to the throne, Jordan's King Hussein, 52, spoke with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Senior Correspondent Murray J. Gart about the turmoil engulfing the Middle East...
...Disney released the film, Roy Disney made a splash of his own by resigning from the board to launch an effort to oust the top management. He sensed an outside takeover looming, which he aimed to fend off. Meanwhile, Manhattan Raider Saul Steinberg, hearing a tip about Disney's turmoil, began to buy a huge chunk of its stock. Contending that Disney was worth more money in pieces than as a whole, Steinberg proposed to sell off everything but the theme parks...
...advice of Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. The 80-year-old Powell described Fried as "very upset and concerned." When Meese urged Fried to stay on the job, the anguished official declined to give a flat promise to do so. Instead, he told Meese that the turmoil in the department would not end until Meese stepped aside...
...flashes backward to tell all. A half-century of solitude earlier, Florentino enjoys a passionate, three-year romance with the schoolgirl Fermina, conducted entirely through the exchange of clandestine letters. His swooning preoccupation and physical distress arouse concern: "His mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera." But it is love, all right, and Florentino's symptoms grow worse when Fermina abruptly tosses him aside and later weds Dr. Urbino, the scion of an illustrious though fading family...
Glasnost has arrived not a minute too soon. The vigorous turmoil that has marked Western composition for the past two decades has left hardly a scratch across the dutiful Russian visage. True, there have been a few dated "experimental" pieces of the wail-and-swoop school that, if expressed orthographically, would look like ! cents* ! and to which the audience reaction is generally zzzzzzz, and some younger Soviet composers have flirted with newer techniques, such as minimalism. But most of the music heard last week mines the same tractor-factory-and-singing-peasant vein that the Soviets have been exploring...