Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Communist revolution in Germany, where Marx expected his workers' revolt to start, is instead a brief outpouring of rage and envy from a still conservative people. This Lenin says his duty is to feed, clothe, house and employ the Russian people; until this goal is achieved, there is no point in expansionist ambitions. Afghanistan comes to mind...
...fiber, free of preservatives and chemical additives. "People have discovered that from real bread you get more nutrients for the fewest calories, for the fewest dollars," says Paul Stitt, president of Natural Ovens of Manitowoc in Wisconsin. Some of today's producers make health benefits a key selling point. Schripps in New Jersey, for example, exuberantly describes its Slice of Life loaf as containing "16% roughage, which regularizes the digestive system, preventing or relieving constipation...
Comedy. Stand-up comedy, once relegated to nightclubs and TV variety shows, is now big business. Its practitioners work comedy clubs, the concert circuit and cable TV, where their material is available to children. One way to get attention, to appear hip, to make a provocative point or just to give a joke some taboo oomph, is to talk dirty. Plenty of comics don't; the most popular TV comedian of the '80s is clean (and funny) Jay Leno. But plenty do. Just watch them on HBO or Showtime. Sam Kinison, a kind of defrocked evangelist of red-neck rage...
...week the House of Representatives joined the Senate in a resolution supporting an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital. This is not official U.S. policy, and the congressional resolution is not binding on the Administration. Even so, it allowed Hussein Musawi, a Lebanese Shi'ite leader, to score a point that might become an excuse for a delay in freeing more of the captives, by asking why the release of one hostage should be met with "such a monumentally ill-intentioned response...
...image was familiar: Mikhail Gorbachev on another barnstorming journey, surrounded by a sea of citizens. "The point of this trip was to come and see if what we're hearing about your concerns is true," he told workers at the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, in the Soviet Union's industrial heartland. That concern was familiar too: the state of a faltering economy close to collapse and increasingly incapable of delivering goods and services to 287 million citizens...