Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Built in 1897, the T was the first subway in North America. Then, it was a sign of Boston's increasing industrialization and was praised for its efficiency. No longer is it the most efficient subway, though--Washington and New York have bested it. But, by contrast to its younger siblings, the T has, and builds, character. Today the T stands as a quasi-romantic critique of the soulless efficiency of its contemporaries...
...then there's Washington's Metro, a disgustingly clean and predictable subway. There, faux-Roman arches make every station into a cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...almost soap-operatic human dimension of the story of a boy separated from his natural father - who, by most accounts, was his primary caregiver - by an ideological dispute has been grist to the mill for Castro's propaganda machine, which has used it to rally Cuban public opinion against Washington...
...propaganda strategy, and the only one who really loses out is Elian," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "The Cuban-American community in Miami is holding the boy up as an anti-Castro cherub to keep the heat up on their political agenda and put pressure on Washington not to return the boy to his father, while the Cuban government is turning the issue into an epic Cold War crusade when all they really have to do is let the father travel to Miami and let any family court judge release Elian to him." But that would be passing...
...months, Moscow and Washington have quarreled over how many spies to let into each other's country under diplomatic cover. The Russians feel the U.S. has been stingy; the U.S. says the Russians have been "brazen and blatant," but "we've thwarted" them. The tension broke last week in Moscow with the arrest of Cheri Leberknight, 33, ostensibly a U.S. embassy official but actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow...