Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fingered by Gordievsky, including three embassy first secretaries, were packing their bags. Nearly half those on the list given to Charge d'Affaires Parshin were purported trade officials. In Britain, as in the U.S. and other Western countries, such representatives spend their time attending industrial shows and gathering all manner of data that might be helpful to Soviet technology. Shortly after the defection had been revealed, a delivery van arrived at the Soviet Trade Mission in London carrying a British-made Apricot home computer. It had been ordered by Viktor Logush, who was on the expulsion list; Soviet officials refused...
...collectives, which range in size from a few people to several thousand, have gone in for all manner of enterprise. Visitors to the Yuying (Civilized Heroes) market in Peking, for instance, will find tape decks and stationery for sale. Small group-owned businesses this year plan to build 59 hotels in Peking alone. The most daring of these experiments has seen a few collectives sell "internal shares" to employees, on which they stand to gain "bonuses" (the capitalist-sounding term dividends is still avoided). When a photoprinting service in Shanghai offered stock for sale earlier this year, thousands of people...
...David Bowie in his next movie looks like a wild-haired descendant of Cookie Monster and Chewbacca the wookie, well, in a manner of speaking, he is. The versatile rocker has just finished shooting Labyrinth, a $25 million gothic fantasy directed by Muppets Creator Jim Henson and overseen by Star Wars Mastermind George Lucas. Bowie, who wrote and sings a batch of new songs for the movie, plays Jareth the Goblin King, a baddie who lives at the center of a maze and turns human babies into goblins. Most of the other characters are part of a new Hensonagerie that...
Reagan might have been able to continue resisting sanctions had there been signs that Botha was finally addressing himself to his country's political crisis in a decisive manner. But all the signs last week pointed toward continuing intransigence and spreading violence. One evening a crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes...
...common sense. Each reflects the controlling intelligence of the film's writers and director, who want to celebrate the antic resourcefulness of American individualism while satirizing the gaseous platitudes that are too often used to motivate and justify it and sometimes corrupt it. Their work may have the broad manner (and the marketing strategy) of a teen pic, but do not be misled. One has to have lived through the early '60s to appreciate what a good, smart comedy Volunteers...