Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to report whatever is said or done, yet many value the informal interchange that occurs when there is an agreement to keep certain activities off the record. On Air Force One, an eleven-member press pool sits in the back, well behind President Reagan's closed-off cabin, and gets regular briefings from Spokesman Larry Speakes, which the pool shares with the rest of the press traveling on a separate "zoo plane." There is an unwritten agreement that Reagan is not photographed at unguarded moments, although a picture of him wearing sweat pants and standing in a doorway...
That afternoon Dominique splashed gasoline on passengers and then ignited a newspaper. The terrified hostages forced open a door and tumbled out of the plane. At that moment the Venezuelan commandos stormed the cabin. The two hijackers died in the ensuing shootout...
...different. Walter Mondale was finally relaxing. Back in the north woods of his native Minnesota for a glorious week, he had no swarm of reporters around him constantly nagging, plenty of home-cooked meals (steaks, barbecued chicken, fresh fish), and time with the whole family in a rustic cabin on Gunflint Lake...
...sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin, pour a cup of coffee and then hear her say, 'These kids are driving me crazy...
...nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though, the creative group has neglected to build to the kind of giddy, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink climax that made Airplane! such a memorable exercise in anarchy. Top Secret! plays more like a pillow fight in a summer-camp cabin, an agreeable way to pass the time after lights-out, but one that just peters out when everyone gets tired of breaking the rules. -By Richard Schickel...