Word: wall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wowed critics with a sharp mind, penetrating questions and a phenomenal recall of names, faces and dates. Now his steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the far wall of his cavernous office. He mixed up dates and forgot a name. At one point, a pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind...
Once lulled by the cuddly Communism of Deng Xiaoping, foreigners now take seriously the tales of wall-to-wall surveillance. In addition to telephone taps, the apartments (notably bedrooms), offices and cars of foreigners are bugged for sound and outfitted with tiny optical-filament cameras. Chinese security assured one foreign intelligence officer that the accumulation of tapes in a variety of languages was no problem: the agency has plenty of fellow travelers to deliver sophisticated, nuanced translations...
...since John F. Kennedy arrived to denounce the Berlin Wall in 1963 have West Germans lavished such adulation on a foreign visitor as they did last week on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. But the messages left by the two travelers, their visits separated by 26 years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
...news conference shortly before he left, Gorbachev responded somewhat evasively to a question about the Berlin Wall, calling it "no great problem." He repeated the standard East German position that the Wall could be torn down when the conditions that created it have disappeared. But even if Gorbachev were open to discussion on that matter, he would face certain resistance from East Germany, which opposes most of his liberal reforms. One measure of Gorbachev's standing in East Berlin: press coverage of his trip was consistently minimal...
...else failed, Time could seek a so-called white knight to save it from Paramount's grasp. But almost any bidder with enough financial backing could jump into the fray without being invited. Moreover, Wall Street analysts believe that all three companies are now up for sale, since their stock is falling into the hands of speculators who will gladly sell to the highest bidder. "I bet none of the three companies will exist a year from now," says Ellen Greenspan, a leading Wall Street arbitrager...