Word: powering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Soviet Union, still the East Europeans' major trading partner, has cut back sharply on oil deliveries to its former allies and reduced its purchases of their goods. In Hungary angry motorists have blockaded roads and bridges; in Bulgaria the government has been forced to order sharp cuts in the power supply. The oil crisis has made it impossible to shut down Soviet-built nuclear reactors in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia that Western experts consider unsafe. "The gulf crisis couldn't have come at a worse time for Eastern Europe," says Daniel Thorniley, an analyst at Business Eastern Europe, a consulting agency...
Born into a middle-class Welsh family, Heseltine studied accounting after Oxford and then went into property development and publishing, amassing a fortune worth more than (pounds)50 million. Elected to Parliament in 1966, he held various non-Cabinet posts under Edward Heath. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, she appointed Heseltine Environment Minister, and four years later moved him to Defense. A reputation for impetuosity has followed him since an episode in the Commons in 1976 when, irate over a demonstration staged by Labour M.P.s, he seized the ceremonial mace and brandished it over his head. Heseltine...
Sheehy has the sort of drive and self-confidence that must have impressed her gloomy Soviet hosts. Like a laptop Barbara Walters, she attempts to bag "top" officials, those with "ultimate power." But the Big Guy won't show, and the Kremlin's First Lady, says Sheehy, "has never consented to an interview...
...whose early family life was marked by chaotic dislocations such as divorce, he says, will see a recession as a catastrophic event that could destroy him. Individuals with dependent personalities who lose their jobs may feel abandoned and show their frustration by, for instance, voting against the party in power. Those who usually feel in control of every situation may be especially stunned by unexpected economic setbacks. "The perfectionist will think all his achievements have been to no avail," says Cassius. "The masochist, by contrast, will now be happy again...
...viewers, who believe movies should be easy and edifying, will say of Kit and Port: Such small people. But nearly all of Bertolucci's films, from Before the Revolution to The Conformist, from 1900 to The Last Emperor, are big canvases holding tiny, forlorn souls. Because of the performers' power, the Moresbys come alive onscreen as they never quite did in the book. Bertolucci looks at Malkovich, the lizardly eminence of Dangerous Liaisons, and thinks of Brando: "They are two monoliths, unchanging, absolutely still -- and, from the first moment, condemned." Winger, for too many years the great unused actress...