Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whole industries have sprung up to service the markets on the left. Printers illicitly run off copies of scarce books, while entire hidden factories make jeans and cosmetics. Truck Drivers Nikolai Butko and Alexander Konovalov developed a very elaborate triangular trade from the Caucasus Mountain city of Krasnodar near the Black Sea. They picked up purloined steel from a state factory, delivered it to government farms in exchange for off-market tomatoes, grapes and peas, and then sold the produce in Siberia, where fresh vegetables were in short supply...
Crops within three miles of the crater were destroyed. Downwind, in a triangular swath stretching 200 miles to the east, about 10% of the crops suffered some damage from the dust. Several fields of alfalfa and wheat in eastern Washington were flattened by the weight of ash. When wetted by rains, like those that fell four days after the blast, ash on the ground forms a thick cement-like glop that young shoots may be unable to break through...
General Dynamics' version was cigar-shaped and very slightly shorter than Boeing's 20-ft.-9-in.-long trapezoidal model, with its almost triangular cross section. Both missiles are also launched in the same manner. Immediately after being dropped from either wing pylons or out of the B-52's underbelly, air-intake scoops for the rear-mounted engine pop open, wings slam out with enough force to cut a man in half, and the engine begins to whine...
...assortment of bombers at a top-secret airfield in the Soviet Union. There are also high-altitude views of submarines nestling alongside their mother ships on the coast of the Barents Sea; a lunar-like landscape that is a Soviet hydrogen-bomb test site; a graceful triangular pattern deep in central Asia that marks the Tyuratam launch site for Soviet space shots and missiles...
There may be some truth in all this, but these triangular banalities no more explain the dancer's sad fate than they illuminate his genius. His troubles with what would now be called "relationships" are the symptoms rather than the causes of his collapse. Some people will be titillated by the openness with which homosexual love is portrayed in the film. But this is mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinsky's melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become...