Word: opened
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...River (1985). This winsome adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn celebrated the frontier in music and lyrics by Roger Miller, a wistful lamenter of the lost open road. Designed and staged with shrewd simplicity, it glowed with sentiment: when Huck and the runaway slave Jim got onto the river, they lit cigars -- and ignited a skyful of stars...
...world. But far bigger investments in the U.S. are those of the Europeans, who now face a gigantic opportunity in the collapse of East European communism. In theory, the European Community is supposed to complete its basic economic merger in 1992, when it will have free movement of capital, open borders, no trade barriers among the member nations and a common tariff on outside goods. Some now see difficulties in the new possibility of German reunification and an economic opening to the East. Leaders of the European Community are convinced, however, that the answer to that possibility...
...1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act, performed on a world-historical stage. Trapdoors flew open, and whole regimes vanished. The shell of an old world cracked, its black iron fragments dropping away, and something new, alive, exploded into the air in a flurry of white wings...