Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fulfillment. But even though present-day Republicans and their flacks have corrupted the American air with babblings about the L word, as though liberalism were something to be ashamed of, Goya's beliefs, so passionately held, still testify to the liberal conscience as the best hope of Western man in the past 200 years...
...only partly in jest, as a special kind of mentor, "a tormentor." Yet Gordy has given de Passe the freedom to run the company as she sees fit. Says Gordy: "If somebody had asked me a year ago, I would never have guessed we were going to do a western." Now that de Passe has reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that she has no yen to jump to a major studio. Says she: "There really isn't anything out there that I am interested in. I was planted in a garden...
...hard to know what to make of rumors that circulated last week about whether Gorbachev might soon be forced to share power or be pushed aside entirely. Rumors of political frailty have plagued Gorbachev before, but this time they cropped up in more than one place. In Moscow a Western diplomat remarked, "There are a lot of indications that Gorbachev is losing his grip." In New York City speculation swirled in the corridors of the United Nations. "Is it possible that Gorbachev has reached the crucible?" asked a West German Kremlinologist. "Yes it is." Even a senior Soviet diplomat admitted...
...produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev has ended at home," says a Moscow-based Western diplomat. "Gorbachev's been in power too long to blame it all on Brezhnev...
...facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others see it as evidence of his strength, indicating that he feels secure enough to delegate considerable responsibility. Either way, notes a Western diplomat, "the power used to be in the hands of one man, but it's loosening...