Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose, Cohen complains that the book is not about the press. He's right about that. Wasn't supposed to be. It's about government, how government works, particularly how the federal government is affected by press coverage. It is not a book about good or bad journalists, although that seems to be the book Cohen wished was written; it is a book about good and bad policymaking. There is nothing in the book about a hostile press being "not conducive to good government," but there is plenty of evidence and argument in the book that hostility toward the press...
...Soviet authorities went out of their way to signal a truce with the country's leading human rights activist. When asked at a press conference if Sakharov might be punished for his Afghanistan comment, Yuri Kashlev, a senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official, responded mildly, "I do not see anything bad in this comment by Sakharov. Indeed, our leadership has stated in the past on many occasions that we seek to resolve the problem of Afghanistan as soon as possible." As if to reinforce that point, a top Kremlin foreign policy adviser told the Washington Post that Moscow plans to withdraw...
...1940s, the last imperial decade of the movie industry, was a dream factory, a sausage machine, a gloriously successful trade conspiracy (till the feds made the studios sell their captive theater chains). It was, for wowsers who cared to moralize, a creepy metaphor of the American soul. Ignorance ruled. Bad taste feasted; genius writhed. Or so genius said. Oddly, though not many superior films were produced, quite a few good flicks got made...
...sense of herself and her limits. Aquino recognizes the vanity of vanity. "I've reached a point in life," she says, "where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad." It is that same kind of detached self-possession that enables her, in the midst of pandemonium, to remain as composed as a sermon. "A single word of anger from her or any suggestion of violence ((at Ninoy's funeral)) could conceivably have overtaken Malacanang Palace," relates Emmanuel Pelaez...
...from being the political novice people liked to consider her, Cory | was able to draw on the considerable knowledge and acumen she had absorbed during her years as the wife of Marcos' chief rival. She quickly concluded that the figures were not as bad as they seemed. "Ninoy always said that the administration has a captive 30%, the opposition a stable 30% and that what elections are all about is how to bring over...