Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MISS NICARAGUA tearfully threaded her way down the runway last week, laden with 12 American Beauty roses and a promotional contract as Miss Universe, the curtain came crashing down on the regime which for nearly half a century has run the show in her home country. And although the violence emanated from Managua, most eyes looked to Washington as Carter faced his latest test of leadership in foreign police...
...must tell you a good lie-a real good lie." It is the story of a comedian who dies backstage at the end of his act while the audience continues to applaud, thinking he is still in the giant clown's shoes they see protruding from beneath the curtain. It is a good lie, one of the best, but is there any truth to it? "All my stories are basically honest," he answers. "But from then on you're in show business...
...finals. Tickets for sporting events, as well as for cultural activities be on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, though "barter booths" will be set up in hotel lobbies to allow spectators to swap unwanted tickets. There will be some agonizing choices. Faced with a 7 p.m curtain at the Bolshoi and an Olympic event it the same time-most finals are scheduled for the evening-some tourists will doubtless go home unsatisfied...
Although he writes in a style of studied unconventionality and portrays his depraved characters sympathically, Wedekind nevertheless wrote a morality play. The characters are not human beings but types and all receive their just deserts by the final curtain. However, no sense of optimism or serene belief in retribution lighten the atmosphere of depravity and despair. The world remains cold, detached, evil--and absurd...
...aspects of Soviet life, one vital area remains terra incognita. The Communist leadership regards sex as virtually nonexistent, except to raise the birth rate; whatever figures exist are guarded as closely as the real statistics on defense spending. Stern, who left the U.S.S.R. in 1977, has now lifted that curtain slightly. In a book published in France, La vie sexuelle en U.R.S.S. (Sex in the Soviet Union), which is to be brought out in the U.S. next spring by Times Books, he offers the most comprehensive description yet of sexual mores in the U.S.S.R...