Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show's most thrilling back-to-the-future revelations are the posters and advertisements and magazine layouts from the '30s, '40s and '50s that look contemporary. Lester Beall's Depression-era posters for the Rural Electrification Administration are spare and abstract and unsentimental, the perfect brainy New Deal agitprop. Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late...
...star actor -- Kevin Costner, say -- plays a character whom the moviegoer recognizes as Kevin Costner: flinty, rural, resourceful. Baldwin, so far, has enjoyed playing a broad range of roles that engage audiences' interest but not always their sympathy. Decent husband, psycho killer, corporate meanie, hero spy. Like a superior salesman, Baldwin displays his wares without revealing himself. Several directors have called him a chameleon, but McTiernan stresses that "Alec goes further. He gets his freedom by keeping you guessing about who he is. It's a function of his intelligence. Give him a toehold, and he'll scamper...
...first shock of the Sandinista defeat wore off, Nicaragua's fault lines reemerged. Within a day of the elections, scattered incidents of violence erupted in Managua and rural towns as Chamorro and Ortega supporters clashed. By Tuesday Ortega was sounding like his usual defiant self. At a public rally, he roared, "They want the government. We give it to them. We will rule from below." A peaceful transition, he cautioned, required the immediate demobilization of the contras. Warning that "the change of government by no means signifies the end of the revolution," Ortega was deliberately vague about the future role...
...subsidies paid out of the national budget to other republics and for the creation of separate government agencies, public organizations and a television network to serve only Russia -- all of which the other 14 republics already enjoy. Valentin Rasputin, a nationalist writer known for his portrayals of Russian rural life, has even suggested that Russia consider seceding from the Soviet Union...
...television viewers, home satellite dishes have been too costly and cumbersome to win much popularity except in rural areas that lack cable TV. But last week four communications companies disclosed plans for a $1 billion satellite service that could transform American viewing habits when it becomes available in 1993. The four partners -- NBC, Cablevision Systems, Hughes Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. -- said their Sky Cable service will beam 108 channels to homes equipped with a 12-in. by 18-in. rectangular dish that will cost about $300. Users of the new system, which could carry high-definition...