Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave the room. "It happened like this," he would begin urgently. When he sensed impending restlessness, he would insert a "To make a long story short" and pick up the pace, He practiced this old-fashioned bardic art for so long that it began to look brand...
Every other year or so since 1964, loyal readers pick up their new Anne Tyler novel as they would buy a favored brand of sensible shoe. Each of her nine books is solidly constructed from authentic and durable materials. Yet traditional style and comfort do not necessarily mean dullness. Tyler's characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks and harmonic longings. They usually live in ordinary settings, like Baltimore, the author's current home, and do not seem to have been overly influenced by the 7 o'clock news. An issue...
...interests. In recent months the Soviets have treated the resumption of arms-control talks in Geneva primarily as an opportunity to score propaganda points by advancing highly self-serving, largely spurious proposals for a moratorium on new missiles in Europe. This plan, if adopted, would leave them with a brand-new generation of rockets that they have nearly finished deploying, while preventing NATO from modernizing its older forces in order to redress the balance...
That bizarre border battle two weeks ago was characteristic of the brand of bloody warfare the Iranians have been waging, with growing success, in an 18-month-old holy war against their Iraqi invaders. By combining conventional infantry and artillery tactics with suicidal attacks by fanatic Islamic Guards and irregulars, the Iranians have recaptured a considerable part of the territory they lost to the Iraqis immediately after the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980, the beginning...
Even more threatening, from the point of view of such conservative gulf states as Saudi Arabia, are Iran's stepped-up efforts to export its particular brand of Islamic revolution. There is abundant evidence that Tehran believes that the war with Iraq offers a unique opportunity for fomenting fundamentalist coups d'étât in other Muslim states. A recent appeal for volunteers issued by the Islamic Guards called on Iranians to help enable "the Islamic revolution to open the gates of freedom to the oppressed peoples of the region." Last December police in the tiny, prosperous...