Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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According to the panel, 64 million gallons of wastes kept in 170 tanks for up to 40 years show signs of chemical instability. The panel reported that heat within some of the tanks could become great enough to ignite a spontaneous chemical explosion or a spark could set off the combustible mixture...
With no plausible short-term military options, the response of the West, led by the U.S., can initially be only economic. American diplomats set to work last week at the United Nations and in world capitals to produce a resolution imposing comprehensive sanctions. The object is to keep Iraq from selling oil and buying arms. The Security Council, reflecting the new amity between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resolved that Iraq must withdraw or face further international action...
...editor, Terry Zintl, is enduring a crash course in Italian to prepare for a change of scene as Rome bureau chief. During his five years in the section, Zintl brought an expansive outlook to the job, which White says will continue. "The mood and tone of the U.S. is set as much outside Washington as inside," says Zintl. "We tried to find out what our leaders were saying but also what Americans were doing." From his Rome base, he will have the even more expansive task of finding out how the people of three ancient cultures -- Italy, Greece and Turkey...
...work is fast, funny and damnably clever. Set behind the Iron Curtain in 1968, Increased Difficulty of Concentration, plays game with perception, chronology and language, and is classic theater of the absurd. The simple repitition of dialogues, even entire scenes, lends Havel's glimpse behind the curtain an acuity. The work is frequently and charmingly inscrutable; there are several inexplicable and subtle wardrobe changes between scenes...
...film is stunningly photographed by Ernest Dickerson, and the costume and set design (Wynn Thomas) play strong supporting roles. Mo' Better Blues is, without a doubt, beautiful to look at. The film's music score, written by Bill Lee, the filmmaker's father and a jazz musician himself, is strong, with both the title track and "Harlem Blues," sung by newcomer Williams, deserving special credit...