Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman. "I've never committed any crimes...
...East German Communists have lost much of their control over society in recent weeks and have granted historic concessions to the opposition, including opening the Berlin Wall and other borders, in a desperate effort to shed their Stalinist legacy and remain in power...
...replaced by Egon Krenz, who opened the Berlin Wall and gave the East Germans the freedom to travel they had not enjoyed since the wall was built...
Gaspardo is the strongest player. If a one-note character, he is at least energetic. And he has wonderful monologues to deliver. It is curious, though, that in delivering them he occasionally breaks the fourth wall and yells at the audience. As if we haven't suffered enough...
Reform began in East Germany after Honecker was forced out following 18 years in power. Since then, a popular uprising and exodus of thousands of people to the West have forced the Communist government to open East Germany's borders and the Berlin Wall to allow citizens to travel freely...