Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painfully difficult dialogue with the American Administration and despite the unfortunate failure in mutual understanding at Reykjavik -- and even though a West European leader let slip a shocking comparison of our leader with Goebbels -- glasnost is expanding and gaining in strength. True, it is sometimes sabotaged by those creaky armchair warriors who feel their comfortable seats being pulled from under them. But they will not succeed...
...sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame...
Many people who were novice investors when they first started an IRA have become armchair financiers. Instead of consolidating their contributions in one safe place, many IRA holders shuttle their accounts from one investment to another as the economic winds change. Says Alfred Johnson, chief economist for the Investment Company Institute: "They no longer view IRAs as passive accounts that gather dust until retirement. IRAs have become aggressive investment tools. Consumers invest in them because they want to get rich." The fastest-growing new account is the self-directed variety, in which the customer can switch from, say, Treasury bonds...
...Zhivago, Sir Alec walked into Richardson's hotel suite in Madrid. "Who can one hit," said Richardson, "if not one's friends?" -- and punched him in the jaw. By the time Guinness raised himself from the floor to ask what was going on, Richardson was sound asleep in an armchair...
Unsatisfying as this may be for armchair detectives, it preserves the phantasmagoric mood essential to Hawksmoor's impact. Ackroyd, 36, a versatile English writer whose biography of T.S. Eliot was widely praised two years ago, has a gift for historical pastiche. His 18th century is a battleground where the rational temper of the modern world, championed by Wren, contends with the medieval occultism embraced by Dyer...