Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/ Moscow and Gisela Bolt/ Washington
...such fancies took hold of our lives, rather than merely titillating our parlor conversations, the ensuing panic would be something to see. Either we would head for the streets bearing clubs and torches, like the villagers in the Frankenstein movies, or we would bolt the doors like Howard Hughes, letting our fingernails grow toward heaven in prayers for a germproof sterility. That we do neither is as remarkable in its way as the Tylenol poisoning itself. The poisoning is, to put it mildly, an aspect of extreme behavior. One might think that its antidote would also consist of extreme behavior...
...government of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his embattled Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had reached epic dimensions. For months, the often abrasive Schmidt had struggled to hold together his troubled ruling coalition amid signs that its junior partner of 13 years, the Free Democratic Party, was preparing to bolt the government. Last week, in a crossfire of public recriminations, four Free Democratic Cabinet members, including Party Leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was also Schmidt's Foreign Minister, resigned their portfolios...
...bolt of cloth was sent along to Beverly Hills Tailor Frank Mariani, who makes all of Reagan's suits. He went to work with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing his customer's taste: two-button coat, medium-width lapels, pleated trousers and six buttons on the fly. For $1,200 the suit was a beauty, and Mariani suspected back then that it might be destined for fame. "The President likes his clothes," explains Mariani. "He builds a fondness for them...
...ways to tell the difference between style and flair in moviemaking: style reveals; flair displays. Style insinuates; flair asserts. Style is witty; flair is clever. Style seems simple; flair looks facile. Style is a bolt of lightning; flair is a ripple of Mylar. Style advances the story; flair replaces the story. Style connects images, scenes, moods, morals; flair offers a series of showy epiphanies. Style is a cloak for character; flair is a designer-jeans commercial. Style finds the right thing; flair uses everything. Style is the expression of the born moviemaker; flair is the product of the compulsive movie...