Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing in a cold drizzle that his trip to China had been a "long journey for peace." After the two leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned to a runway podium for wa brief liturgy. "He is a | charming person," the "Pontiff later told reporters, "and I am not disagreeable either." But some Vatican officials were irked that the Pope had been used as a political prop. Indeed, a camera crew from the Republican National Committee filmed the encounter, and it will no doubt turn...
...reports covered topics which had interested not only Council members but the university community as well freedom of speech, the quality of section instruction, the quality of freshman advising, and the successful integration of Senior Common Room members into the informal life of a house. Next, following a brief awards ceremony for the Council's most devoted members. Tom Heintzman of Currier House presented an undocketed resolution whose passage would have required the Council to waive one of the rules it had passed overwhelmingly earlier that same night. While several aspects of the resolution argued against its adoption, its violation...
...idea for the program arose in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon nearly two years ago. The manpower drain resulting from the lighting was considered to be more threatening than from the relatively brief '67 and '73 wars...
...rather trivial verses in praise of gardens. The result, then, of this compilation is a thinly disguised anthology. It includes, for the sake of thoroughness, a host of contributors that should be, and for the most part have been, anthologized but that are not appropriate to such a brief tour as this...
...benefited from more scenes with the only character sufficiently outsize to compete with the film maker: his driving, obsessive mother. The focus of the novel is Larry Lazar's awareness that his whole life has been a vain effort to win her explicit approval, and in her too brief scenes she dominates the story as effectively as she rules the family around her. Still, there is not a false note in the whole shrill song, and in its balanced skewering of Brooklyn and Beverly Hills, The Return of Mr. Hollywood may launch a new genre: the bicoastal novel...