Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spadolini felt secure enough to confront 57.5 million fellow Italians with a sobering economic warning. The country is sliding into recession at an alarming rate he said in a televised speech a month ago. Unless inflation is brought under control, warned Spadolini, Italy could end up as a Mediterranean banana republic...
...Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...problem of the press has been very much on the President's mind of late. At Haig's urging, Reagan even telephoned Columnist Jack Anderson from Camp David to persuade him to withdraw a report that the Secretary of State had "one foot on a banana peel." At times Reagan denied there was dissension in his Administration ("Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as an unnamed source"). But of course it was Haig himself, and not a reporter, who said Haig had been subjected to nine months of "guerrilla warfare" from inside the White House...
Like the Brewery, Gentree is a new bar trying to make it with the college crowd. But Gentree goes after its clientele with a little more subtlety. Recline with a banana daquiri and soak up the mellow atmosphere. If you feel rowdy. Gentree can still accommodate you. Try a full liter "Gusto" mug of draught beer. The food is inexpensive and pretty good. Try the spicy nachos...
...executive. Yet he and his chief aides were forced to spend precious time quelling the controversy. The episode began when White House Staff Director David Gergen saw an advance copy of a column by Jack Anderson. Administration sources, Anderson wrote, said that Haig "has one foot on a banana peel" and might fall soon. Gergen called Haig, who called Anderson. The rumors, the Secretary of State told the columnist, were the work of a top White House aide who has been running a "guerrilla campaign" against him that was tantamount to a "sabotage of the President...