Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama of two men in the blustery Mediterranean closing the book on 40 years of animosity is one of the surprises that history deals up in this strange world. "The changes are so monumental. So different. But it did not seem overwhelming when we sat down. Two reasonable people sat down with their staffs. Even the contentious matters were brought up without rancor. When I first met him in Moscow when I was Vice President and brought up human rights, he grew very heated. This time he talked very rationally, not rancorously...
...note finds the mailbox, and the child prances back past Santa Claus, coloring book in hand...
...Gorbachev opened the encounter with a list of sweeping arms proposals that kept Ronald Reagan off balance for the rest of their time together. This time it was Bush who produced the printed sheet of specifics almost as soon as he and Gorbachev sat down in the book-lined cardroom of the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky. Putting before him 112 typed pages of items, the President started out nervously, his voice tight. Gorbachev, sitting across from him, listened intently. When Bush finished speaking, nearly one hour later, he had set out what one White House official called...
...this abbreviated version, A Christmas Carol (Viking Penguin; $14.95) is presented as "A Changing Picture and Lift-the-Flap Book." Thanks to Kareen Taylerson's ingenious designs, young readers can move a lever and create a banquet, make Jacob Marley materialize out of the air and, finally, reprieve Ebenezer Scrooge. But Charles Dickens' famous ending is unillustrated -- and rightly so. Its wish is worth a thousand pictures: "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well. May that be said...
...anything about it for another couple of months. We can't do anything about it then either. All of you should just calm down and think about something that we can actually have an effect on--like nuclear disarmament or Third World human rights violations. Read a book if you don't like activism. Play Nintendo. I don't care. Just leave me alone...