Word: mays
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Iron Curtain without bloodshed, undertaking democratic reform at home and supporting a number of U.S. policies abroad, Gorbachev has created a sort of personality cult in Western diplomatic circles. American officials claim to support policies, not politicians, but in private there is widespread fear that current Soviet policies may be inextricably linked to the current embattled Soviet leader...
Though there is talk of famine and reports of ever longer lines, most / experts agree that while Soviets may suffer, they will not starve this winter. State stores in Moscow and Leningrad are empty of bread, soap, matches, meat. Yet private shops are abundantly stocked and now account for as much as one- half the Soviet food supply, though they charge up to ten times state prices. With the exception of desperately poor areas like Uzbekistan, most regions are managing to feed their people. But the cost is high: nearly everyone is reduced to scavenging and hoarding, rather than working...
Christmas films come in two basic shapes: books and toys. The toys -- doll babies like Home Alone and cuddly creatures like Edward Scissorhands -- may mop up at the box office. But prestige is a Hollywood product too; it can be cashed in for Oscars if enough critics and Motion Picture Academy voters are impressed by what they see. So lauded literary properties like Hamlet and The Sheltering Sky become ambitious films. Herewith, three bookish films hoping for a shelf life that extends past New Year...
Love is home. But home may be a horror also, a cage with wild animals in it. Home is aligned on the side of life, and so the perversion of it (by incest, for example; by violence; by betrayal) is a filthy business, and sometimes evil...
...name of this computer exercise is SimEarth -- The Living Planet, a new $69.95 disk for Macintosh computers that offers something no other program can. It not only shows how life may have evolved on earth, but it also let me do the one thing I've always wanted to do: play...