Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pinnacle. The result is the central paradox of his rule: "The more he sought to disperse power, the more he found it necessary to concentrate power in his own hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that has shaped the past seven decades of Soviet life has already been abandoned, but what new faith will Mikhail Gorbachev offer his people...
...greater fear of trigger- happy gangs. Says Regina Jones, a black publicity consultant and former police department radio operator who lives in South Central Los Angeles: "People are frightened of the police, but they are more frightened of our own youth." Epigmenio Alvarez, a factory worker, complains that roadblocks set up by police to disrupt the movement of gang members and drug dealers in mostly Hispanic East L.A. have been a mixed blessing. "The narcos close this street today, and the droguros move to the next one," he says. "Meanwhile, my kids, who are all clean, get harassed and frisked...
Most of the credit has to go to the text, by award-winning playwright David Rabe. It is a complex and ambitious piece. The considerable action unfolds on the company's marvelous set resplendant with giant records, neon beer signs, and flashing lights. The set remarkably resembles a seedy lounge; it is the only truly recognizable aspect of the production. The surrealistically awful tale focuses on go-go girl Chrissy's growing instability, and the insensitive cretins there to witness...
When Derek C. Bok announced last month that he intends to resign from the Harvard presidency, he immediately set alumni, faculty and students speculating about a possible successor...
...fact, the selection of a new Harvard president has never been that simple. Each time the Corporation has set out to choose a president for the University, it has also undertaken an intensive and sometimes painful process of self-scrutiny...