Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered myself an ideological liberal. Remember, the biggest enemy the Communists had were the liberals, not the conservatives. After World War II, the Communists were out to secure a monopoly on the left wing...
...these days is an unexpected one: Lebanon. For years the fedayeen have enjoyed extraordinary freedom of action there, controlling the refugee camps and operating bases for strikes into Israel. Ending the Palestinians' status as a nation within a nation in Lebanon is a major goal of the right-wing Christian Phalange and its allies-and a constant issue in the nine-month-old civil war. Arafat is anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently, the well-armed P.L.O. guerrillas stayed out of the fighting and even served...
...that the Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...
...territories. When Intimidation caught on, Ringer had Funk & Wagnalls take over the distribution of his book. This was O.K. with Ringer's agent Henry Rearden, who turned out to be Ringer himself, hiding behind the name of a character in Atlas Shrugged, the ponderous novel by his right-wing idol, Ayn Rand...
...Renaissance paintings dissolve into somber, feverish settings lit by stark, bluish fires. The film keeps the quality of a live performance because it's set in an eighteenth-century opera house rather than in a studio. The performance conditions of Mozart's day are faithfully reproduced, down to the wing-and-shutter sets and even the wheel-and-pulley flying contraptions which allowed gods and cherubs to float onstage...