Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Questions of leadership pop up frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising...
...fight has only just begun. While the pre-Christmas matches are good indications of how well the team can play, they're still only that--indications. The real challenges start in January and February...
...faced with the dissolution of party leadership, Czechoslovakia with government paralysis. The turmoil reaches even into the Soviet Union, as Lithuania legalizes political pluralism against Gorbachev's wishes. A TIME symposium explores the future of Europe. The coup's lessons for Corazon Aquino. Colombia's scorecard in its fight against drugs...
ENVIRONMENT: The fight to save the planet...
...compromised the dynamics of 1992," said Moisi, "but there are also those who believe in Europe with a capital E, which embraces those nations lost to Soviet power for two generations." He suggested that the people of Eastern Europe had achieved "a spiritual dimension, of those who had to fight for 40 years against oppression" -- an attitude from which the West could learn. Eastern Europe's transformation, he said, "is not a one-way street...