Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mercedes to peddle. As the singer says of herself, "They didn't have to make me over. There would be no 'Whitney Houston' without Whitney Houston." All of which raises the musical questions: Where did she come from? What did she overcome? For that we need a brief course in cultural history. This...
...public repose to be disturbed. Seven years of war had nearly bankrupted the colonies, and both credit and currency were almost worthless. The supposedly united states quarreled fiercely over economic resources, like oyster-harvesting rights in Chesapeake Bay, and Congress had no real power to keep the peace. The brief but violent Massachusetts farmers' uprising, known as Shays' Rebellion, had provided a garish vision of things to come. Though it had taken Virginia's James Madison and his like-minded colleagues nearly two years to prepare the way for this "Federal Convention," the scheduled opening day, May 14, came...
Some tourism officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
...cargo merely be publicized. Removed from another document was a reference to dunning "current donors" for "another $25-30 million" for contra "munitions" at a time when Congress did not know that Saudi Arabia was giving such military support. A paper that urged National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to brief President Reagan on how the "delivery of lethal supplies" to the contras would continue despite a congressional ban emerged from Hall's racing typewriter with no reference to weapons...
...forever ("If time is money, then I am the last of the big spenders") and has seen it all ("I had to hold my horses for quite a while before there were any human beings to hang out with . . . I sat through geology, waiting for biology"). History provides a brief interlude to the Immortal's loneliness, and he pleads with 20th century mortals, "Be careful -- you'll hurt yourselves. Please. Please try and stay a little longer...