Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loyd Hackler, now president of the American Retail Federation, wryly recalled last week that when he was named an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, great efforts were made to obscure Hackler's own Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...
...used by Phyllis Schlafly and her resistance camp than by the feminist insurgents, who were, at first, so busy recruiting for the barricades that they left the main base vulnerable. Schlafly, however, was a good deal more cunning than anyone first thought. She has potentially a strong feminist background: a daughter of the Depression, she worked in a munitions plant to put herself through Washington University in St. Louis. Feminists might initially have mistaken her for a kind of grandstanding Betty Crocker, but Schlafly and her supporters marshaled all the fear and uncertainty that trails every social revolution, trimmed...
Suddenly, during a TV news report on the Israeli conflict in Lebanon, the screen goes blank. White lettering appears on a stark black background: "22 seconds deleted by Israeli censors." Or footage is left intact, but a legend is superimposed: "Cleared by Israeli censors." Night after night during the past couple of weeks, such unfamiliar signs of censors' intrusions have punctuated newscasts on ABC, NBC and CBS, usually in stories about suffering by Lebanese civilians in bombed-out Beirut...
...serve in Reagan's Cabinet, but whether the White House tried to derail the FBI'S investigation of Donovan's fitness for office. The bureau narrowed its inquiry, but on what authority? During the Reagan transition, Fielding and Meese were responsible for reviewing the FBI background checks on all nominees. Fielding has now been instructed by White House Chief of Staff James Baker to prepare a report of his office's involvement. The White House is not alone in trying to unravel that mystery. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week asked...
Thus begins an absolutely ripping adventure. Author Stephen Becker, 55, keeps the action fast and the background crammed with details. He meticulously evokes the rhythms of village life, the rituals of a people cut off from the rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels...