Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Shultz and former Chief of Staff Don Regan inadvertently portrayed Reagan as easily manipulated and uninterested in the details of how two of his most cherished goals were being pursued: the release of American hostages in Lebanon and the survival of the contras when Congress was refusing to arm them. The resulting portrait of the President was far from flattering. His occasional eagerness to actively shape policy and his memory of what he had decided appeared erratic and selective...
...doing." Among them, he declared, was Secretary of State George Shultz, who opposed the Iran deals but, claimed North, "knew in sufficiently eloquent terms what I had done" for the contras. Shortly before he was fired, North said, Shultz took him aside at a party, "put his arm around my shoulder and told me what a remarkable job I had done keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive." (A spokesman for Shultz said the Secretary had intended only to compliment North for boosting contra morale...
...same time: it evokes the felt presence of the body as an obsessive subject, but obliquely. And there is a curious tension between the enormous size of Murray's canvases and the often domestic and maternal emblems that become their subject matter -- tables and chairs, cups and spoons, an arm, a breast. Murray is not a feminist artist in any ideological sense, but her work, like Louise Bourgeois's or Lee Krasner's, gives a powerful sense of womanly experience. Forms enfold one another, signaling an ambient sense of protection and sexual comfort -- an imagery of nurture, plainly felt...
...took a terrible beating for years," Lawson says, drinking in the day. "Somewhere back in here is Melvin Belli's office." He sweeps an arm round San Francisco. "I sat there. He said, 'No remedy. No money in it.' I went to the best-known attorneys, the highest priced. They said by and large you don't win against the police department. They didn't understand that I knew I could beat them on my own turf, the media. Most people who can communicate, communicate. Those who can't, carry guns. I thought surely at some point sanity would prevail...
...arrested and charged with violating Japanese export laws. In addition, Toshiba Machine was prohibited from selling any goods to 14 Communist countries for one year. Though not directly implicated in the scandal, Toshiba Machine President Kazuo Iimura and three other top executives resigned. Norway, meanwhile, closed Kongsberg's trading arm and charged its sales manager with providing false information to the country's export authorities...