Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...both eras. The Claflin brothers, for instance, sport powder-blue polyester pants suits with collars that reach the shoulders and mustard-yellow hip-hugging bell-bottoms with hideous shirts open to the waste. All the '70s outfits are finished off with perfectly garish accessories and amazingly high and ugly platform shoes (including an incredible pair of ruby platform sandals for Belle-turned-Dorothy...
Gorbachev chastised the secession-minded Lithuanians for rejecting the notion of a new Soviet federation out of hand. The party platform follows the basic line worked out at last September's plenum on nationalities. It calls for the present union to be reorganized on the basis of a new voluntary contract between the republics and the central authorities, but leaves open the possibility of "diverse forms of federative ties." Thus the Baltic republics might be allowed to introduce individual clauses into the general contract that would make staying part of the Soviet Union a more attractive proposition...
Shostakovsky is one of the organizers of a new liberal caucus within the Communist Party called the Democratic Platform. He shuns any analogies with the equally liberal Interregional Deputies' Group in the Supreme Soviet, noting that support for that lobby is "amorphous" while the Platform can count on at least 60,000 supporters in 162 party clubs in 103 cities across the Soviet Union. At a founding conference in Moscow last month, the movement's supporters called for "radical reform of the Soviet Communist Party in the direction of a completely democratic parliamentary party, acting in a multiparty system...
...group has seen its primary mission as working within the party for change, but Shostakovsky does not rule out the possibility that the Platform might become a separate faction if reform should lag. In some ways the rector of the Higher Party School seems like a Martin Luther who has yet to nail his 95 Theses on the door of the Central Committee. Says Shostakovsky: "The policy of centrism and compromise has been exhausted by now. It was always a risky strategy that courted disaster. It is time to pursue a more radical course in transforming society...
This does not mean Politburo members will soon be seen in the food queues. According to officials familiar with the new party platform, the Central Committee recommended that party benefits be transferred to holders of government posts, most of whom are at present members of the nomenklatura. Communist officials who founder at the polls in future elections, however, will, at least in theory, find their standard of living much diminished...