Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Twain were alive today, he certainly would have written about Gillette. A real-life town in the real-life state of Wyoming, Gillette's brief history as a low-life. Mecca combined the worst features of "The Dodge City Story" and "Newark Today." Hauptman believes he has discovered in this town that most prized of creatures, the metaphor. Unfortunately, he has only come across a setting, or at best a case study...
...Franklin Roosevelt journeyed to Tehran for a meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months after Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev embraced in Vienna in 1979, Soviet...
...writing is also brutish, however. Although the authors keep their write-ups on the teams mercifully brief, one does get an opportunity to sample some truly pathetic prose...
Kincaid's voice eludes description or even comparison. In these ten brief pieces-movements in the literal sense of the word-the rhythm and texture of the language displace the reality of meaning...
...rank high on the list of topics. Colombia is a member of the so-called Contadora group of countries promoting a peaceful solution to the problems of the region; Betancur has reached a controversial peace agreement with some 5,000 leftist guerrillas in his own country. He will also brief Reagan on the progress of Colombia's eleven-month war against the local cocaine trade and make a plea for Latin American exports as part of a solution to ease the region's immense burden of foreign debt...