Word: watching
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...ever jittery citizens of West Berlin showed their appreciation of the U.S. by giving Carter a warm reception. He stirred none of the passions aroused by John Kennedy in 1963, but hundreds of thousands of Berliners lined the streets between the Platz der Luftbriicke and the Brandenburg Gate to watch him pass. At the grim wall that divides the city, Carter, Rosalynn and Amy mounted a platform along the border and looked through field glasses at the forbidding, obstacle-studded no man's zone and at East German guards staring back. During the night, the East Germans had whitewashed...
...persistence of traditional antiSemitism. Together, though, the three trials revealed the Kremlin's increasing alarm over the growth of libertarian movements among the Soviet Union's other ethnic minorities and religious groups. It was hardly a coincidence that all three men tried last week were members of unofficial Helsinki Watch Committees that had been formed to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Such groups, which have sprung up in the Baltic states, the Ukraine and Georgia, as well as in Moscow, have served as umbrella organizations, sheltering disparate dissident groups under the aegis...
...situations. They're pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game and he had to leave home and sweat away eight hours a day at meaningless work. By the time he would get home he'd be too tired to do anything but drink beer and watch a ball game, a captive audience. There were so many useless people in America -- he was grinding his teeth now -- ball players who can't win, philosophy students who don't know the meaning of reality...
...people were starting to notice. Private nightmare turning into public spectacle. The heat of the day was mounting, eye pressure was pressing, and as the idiot drooled on, Bobby got up and headed back up to the street. He bought a six-pack and hitch-hiked home to watch the ball game...
SEVERAL OTHER interesting performances make this Winterset at least bearable. If you tune in on the actors and let the play slip away, you can watch some good talent hard at work. Robert Owezarek, who movingly played Anton in Failing last fall, largely recreated that role here, this time with a Jewish accent rather than a Hungarian one. As Esdras, the aging, protective father, he rages and coddles, all with a sense of powerlessness and imminent death. David Eddy returns to the Harvard stage as Carr, Milo's chum, and the only regret about his part is that...