Word: welter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social evolution is played as vapid bourgeois chitchat. The fondest wish of the Prozorov sisters - to return to the gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with antic energy and force. Serban adroitly manages a welter of themes: aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions of honor, loneliness in a crowd. The play becomes the raucous comedy that Chekhov always insisted it was and hurtles exuberantly toward a triumph of optimism over experience. Among a solid cast, including Jeremy Geidt as the pathetic Chebutykin, three performers achieve fresh...
...economies. In September, Denmark got its first conservative Prime Minister in 81 years, Poul Schlüter, who immediately pushed through an austerity program. Belgium's Christian Democratic Prime Minister Wilfried Martens took office a year ago with the avowed aim of cutting back government spending. In a welter of political confusion, the Dutch are now moving toward a center-right coalition government that is committed to trimming the welfare state. A year ago, Norway formed a minority government under conservative colors, the first in 52 years...
...Israel, and indeed the world, wanted to know the chain of events that had led to the massacre and to what degree the Begin government was culpable. In the welter of contradictory reports, certain facts were incontrovertible. Top Israeli officers planned many months ago to enlist the Lebanese Forces, made up of the combined Christian militias then headed by Bashir Gemayel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps once an Israeli encirclement of West Beirut had been completed. This plan was prepared at a time when the camps were still used as bases by the Palestine Liberation Organization. On several occasions...
...first hole in the air waves last Thursday night, ABC-TV offered instead The Cheap Detective, a comedy film about a befuddled gumshoe. Not such an inappropriate choice, perhaps. Though there is nothing cheap about this conflict, a dogged investigator may indeed be needed to wade through the welter of plans, positions and proposals to figure out whodunit. Who is responsible for the strike and what exactly is the fight about...
...Amid the welter of claims and counterclaims, President Ronald Reagan told reporters in Washington that the attack had come as a "complete surprise" to him. He said that it would not deter the U.S. from seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict, even though the U.S. had openly declared its support for Britain only a day earlier. Declared Reagan: "All I know is we will stand ready to help...