Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss the problems of having idle men about the premises: "It's quite a problem for retired people . . . All of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast...
...Reagan glory. Potential candidates tried to rub some of his magic onto their futures, but people were not really thinking of tomorrow. It was all a glorious today of heady triumph, + a happy blend of religiosity and athleticism. Reagan's principal appearances during the convention were at a prayer breakfast and for a speech that associated the runners who had just carried the Olympic flame across America with the torch-bearing Statue of Liberty. The crowd burst into cheers of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" This transcended normal politics. It was the politics of ecstasy. A Nuremberg rally without the menace...
...arms control, men who deferred superficially to Reagan's vision of a Strategic Defense Initiative entirely benevolent, so purely defensive in nature that its secrets could be shared with the world once it was put in place. Members of his Administration nodded along, as they had at the prayer breakfast in Dallas...
...Breakfast is passed through the kormushka in a shallow bowl. Bread, a thin gruel called kasha, and hot water...
...cannot, however, figure out how to turn on the stove. He flicks the garbage disposal on and off, and turns the dishwasher dials around, but to no avail. Finally, he yells, "Honey, how the hell does the stove work," and gets his wife out of bed to fix him breakfast...