Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electorate," he writes, "is an extremely unusual Republican constituency," since it comprises two nontraditionally G.O.P factions: a broad swath of working-class voters as well as the smaller, messianic New Right. Because the deep appeal for the New Right was Reagan's impossible amalgam of "various nostalgias and backward-looking vistas" and "a desire for bold measures," the presidential task of "successfully fulfilling such electoral hopes is likely to be difficult. Hence," Phillips writes, "Reagan's coalition is most probably unstable...
...five minutes into the film/' he says, "the coughing started, and halfway through, people began to talk. This was a sympathetic audience that had turned apathetic. Walt Disney used to tell his people, 'Start with a story, then make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders and salesmen, James advised his clients to lay off the Disney stock. Wall Street reacted fast. The New York Stock Exchange delayed the opening of Disney stock by 2½ hrs. because of a rush to sell...
Having jumped backward, the author suddenly leaps ahead. It is now 1980, and Jake is an English professor in Boston, still maimed by the events of two decades earlier: "McKay had once regarded it as the central task of his life to understand what had destroyed his family. Yet he had not directly addressed that question in twenty years." On cue, Magda Dettke, the infant from Berlin, appears in his office. Her mother, the woman Jake had seen in the museum 20 years ago, is dead. Magda now works for British intelligence, and she has startling news. Giles wants...
...told TIME last week, "We are not trying to strut like roosters, but I am less worried today than when the British fleet sailed. The loss of so many lives has made negotiations more difficult. Above all, the Argentine people will not let us take one step backward. The Argentines are winning...
...hole in it, and that of "modern painting" was a canvasful of drips, then the cliché of "video art" is a grainy closeup of some U.C.L.A. graduate rubbing a cockroach to pulp on his left nipple for 16 minutes while the sound track plays amplified tape hiss, backward. Video art has not yet shaken off its reputation as clumsy, narcissistic and obscure...