Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels' timing was impeccable. Najibullah, leader of the Moscow-backed regime in Afghanistan, was 15 minutes into his opening address at a National Assembly session called to adopt a new constitution giving him vast powers as President. Suddenly a rocket explosion shook the meeting hall. Three more blasts, each louder than the last, followed during the next few minutes. The beefy Najibullah, 41, known to his countrymen as "the Ox," never flinched as he outlined a policy of national reconciliation aimed at ending eight years of civil war. The rockets killed five people outside the hall, helping the rebels make...
...centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...
...Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly and Broadway acclaim for Fifth of July, companion pieces set on the same Missouri homestead. In Burn This, he reaches for a less sentimental key. But onstage the louder voice belongs to John Malkovich, a rising star (Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings...
...southern town of Kalamata. Within days press reports claimed that Papandreou had spent that weekend on a yacht , in the Aegean with Liani. Three weeks ago, the first picture of Papandreou and Liani as a couple appeared on the cover of the normally progovernment monthly Eikones. As tongues wag louder, the Prime Minister is maintaining a stony silence about the affair...
Penny Kaganoff, who has reviewed several examples of the genre in her capacity as an editor at Publishers Weekly, agrees. "With more and more of these books, women are becoming more worried and more nervous about having a good relationship, and they are hearing their biological clock tick louder," % she says. "These books are less than helpful." Betty Friedan, godmother of the feminist movement, also warns of "books that prey on the transitional stage" in the sexual revolution, when women are still grappling with unaccustomed challenges...