Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former CIA director and envoy to Peking, Bush fulfilled the Eastern Establishment tradition of public service in foreign policy. To many Western and populist conservatives, the old foreign policy elite is the same bunch that sold out to Stalin at Yalta, "lost China" and naively adopted Henry Kissinger's vision of detente. Bush was even once a member of the Trilateral Commission, an Establishment foreign policy organization regarded with deep suspicion by the conspiracy theorists of the far right. Another leading exemplar of the "preppie" group is Rhode Island Senator John Chafee, a former Secretary of the Navy...
...morning after the closing ceremonies, which were more spectacular and less charming than usual, the athletes gathered for breakfast with President Reagan before filling three United Air Lines charters. "This is something that happens to Michael Jackson," said another swimmer, Rowdy Gaines, "not to a bunch of jocks." Reagan told them, "You did us proud. Thanks for the memories, for the great moments, for being what you are, genuine heroes."Unable to resist mentioning his own ongoing race, he lost the audience momentarily. Since the 1980 boycott, athletes have become sensitive on one subject. "I just don't like...
...Very gregarious bunch, divers," Naber was saying. "Far more social breed than swimmers...
...children" would be perfect for a precocious kid who was never far from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia," they say. "What nostalgia?" I say. "I'm twelve years...
...large-type text, liberally prepared with color and black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...