Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kopit's play is almost a paradigm of the burgeoning genre of "Nuclear Lit." The brain-deadening pattern lack much variation, having been set in stone in Strangelove: introduce an outsider to what one journalist termed "the subterranean world of the bomb," then lead him or her step by step through the strategy and institutions of strategic nuclear...
...UNDERgrads hey. Well, y'all must be under 21. Any alcohol in the car?" My brain swirled. Dave, Kevin and Nate--sitting safely behind the fogged up, frosted windows--had finished drinking in Montreal. But I had no idea what might be sloshing around on the car floor...
...apart because of the squabbling and led to disclosure of the Iran-contra scandal. That is the contention of one of the factions that are still feuding hotly over the foreign policy disaster. As reports circulated about the imminent retirement of CIA Director William Casey, who is suffering from brain cancer, the agency itself is agonizing over its handling of the Iran initiative...
...subject of Reagan's competence comes up more bluntly in the media. "Brain Dead," the title of an article in the New Republic, referred to the lack of new ideas within the Reagan Administration as a whole but carried a not-very-subtle implication about the President as well. A story in the Washington Post reported that Chief of Staff Donald Regan had formed the Administration's position on federal pay raises with only "minimal" involvement from the President, and one in the New York Times described how congressional leaders had come away from meetings with Reagan wondering...
...after all, one of the peculiar aspects of senility that it tends to derail the brain into the trackless waste of childhood reminiscence. Allen wanders through such barren terrain in Radio Days, a series of vignettes drawn from his boyhood during the glory days of radio. Time progresses, but to no discernible end. While the vignettes are not quite incomprehensible, they certainly are not laden with meaning, either. Kind of like Reader's Digest...