Word: powering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Internal Affairs The year's best urban action film -- cool, smart and heartless -- is also a moral tale about the infinitely corruptive power of sexual attraction. Richard Gere's performance as a good cop gone rancid is a marvel of slipperiness...
...Maiziere protested his innocence, but there are some indications that Czerny could have been De Maiziere. Though he quit the government, De Maiziere vowed to keep his seat in parliament "and at the same time undertake everything in my power to clear up the suspicion...
Most Favored Vegetable No need to limit yourself to a red from Colorado or one of Idaho's browns. What about Yukon Gold? Or Peruvian purple? We're talking serious potato now -- the bulked-out veggie that conquered the culinary world in 1990. At power luncheries, a favorite appetizer of the glitterati was a spare baked potato. But you could get it boiled, fried, duchessed and, most of all, mashed...
...Deputies, meeting in a Kremlin auditorium; to his longtime close friend, President Mikhail Gorbachev, watching on the tribune behind Shevardnadze; and to a world that had been wondering with increasing apprehension which way the U.S.S.R. was going. Shevardnadze thought he knew: back toward the terrible past. "Reactionaries" were gaining power, he said, and nobody would speak out against them. "Comrade democrats!" Shevardnadze shouted, "You have scattered. Reformers have slunk into the bushes. A dictatorship is coming...
...splits had become too deep and envenomed for that. And Shevardnadze tossed in a warning of what might happen if Gorbachev finally came down on the side of the authoritarians. "No one knows what this dictatorship will be like," he said, "what kind of dictator will come to power and what order will be established." That sounded like a warning that the hard-liners could easily push Gorbachev aside after using him to establish their power...