Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shift in which military competition is giving way to financial struggle. "The new focus of Soviet intelligence operations under Mikhail Gorbachev," warns one of his characters, "is in the field of economics." Aaron has populated his tale with a new breed of intelligentsia whose members whisper in the same breath about both espionage and arbitrage...
Nothing happens until the next to last chapter, when the book, like a Miami Vice episode, explains everything in a single breath...
...Last week in Moscow, many of the same men who were involved in the Cuban missile crisis met to discuss the confrontation. In a form of diplomatic glasnost, senior Americans, Soviets and Cubans for the first time traded candid observations on the drama that had the world holding its breath for 13 perilous days in October...
...fitting New Year's Day kickoff for a genre that has run rampant in the past year: the TV docudrama. Virtually every headline- grabbing news story, from mass-murder spree to airline hijacking, is being processed and spun out as "fact-based drama." One can almost feel the hot breath of Hollywood waiting for the Joel Steinberg trial to end so it can be recast and retold as the inevitable Sunday Night Movie...
...husband humiliated and my sons beaten." Yet she does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...