Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a new factor: George Bush is a Gorbachevite himself. He doesn't put it that way, nor does he like others to do so. But the fact remains that for the first time in 72 years, the U.S. has a stake in the survival and success of a particular Soviet leader. Bush does not want to see the Baltic laboratory blow up any more than do the people who live there. Therefore, the American President is plugging not just for the citizens of those tragic republics trapped by history within the Soviet Union, but also for the extraordinary...
...silky, moonfaced Jon Lovitz, creator of the pathological-liar character -- seems to capture the old spirit: like Belushi or Aykroyd or Radner, he gets laughs by simply showing up onstage. Still, there's plenty of talent on hand: Dana Carvey, a pixieish comic with devilish impressions of George Bush and Jimmy Stewart; Victoria Jackson, a ditsily appealing blond; and the sparkling, versatile Jan Hooks. If none seem destined for stardom, they have at least been together long enough to get comfortable...
...writers are more comfortable with them too. Carvey's Bush impersonation galvanized the troupe into some sharp political satire on the '88 campaign. In one inspired sketch during the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan (ah, that's Phil Hartman) puts on his familiar bumbling act in public, then turns into a whipcracking boss in private, directing every detail of the covert operation, down to computing interest on the money stored in Swiss bank accounts. The show's movie parodies have also had some shrewd twists: Carvey, for example, playing Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant in Rain Man -- who turns...
While President Bush turned his attention to domestic consumption of drugs, lecturing American students by nationwide television to just say no, the emergency aid he sent to Colombia came under fire. General Miguel Gomez Padilla, chief of the National Police, said that the equipment from Washington was useless in the drug war, complaining that it was "more suited to conventional warfare than to antinarcotics and antiterrorism operations." Gomez later claimed that he had been misquoted and in fact appreciated the aid. Another growing concern for Colombia is the presence of U.S. military advisers, considered an international embarrassment and a potential...
Yeltsin, who won an astonishing 89% of the Moscow vote in his election to the Congress of People's Deputies last March, reported the pitfalls facing perestroika to President Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of State James Baker and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, as well as thousands of ordinary Americans. And he had plenty of prescriptions for improvement: clean the deadwood from the Politburo; subordinate the party to the People's Congress; open up foreign investment...