Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consternation was the new edition of the venerable Crockford's Clerical Directory, a biennial reference book of statistics and short clergy biographies. But the reason the volume is avidly awaited is its authoritative essay on the state of the church. By tradition, the writer is anonymous, allowing him to cast aside habitual ecclesiastic politesse and speak with complete candor...
...Brooks' beguilingly skeptical romance, Jane is the Lois Lane of the '80s, a newswoman whose affections are torn between a Clark Kent reporter (Albert Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...
There was virtually no talk of children, homes or hobbies. The Soviet leader was at work. In his forceful way, Gorbachev left little doubt that he cast ^ himself as a man of destiny, that his reforms would make or break the Soviet nation. Looking straight at Cheney, he said, "This is the only opportunity we will have...
Some Western analysts, however, had growing doubts about whether delinkage and the zero option would necessarily be an unmitigated blessing. A veteran intelligence official cast a pall over an interagency meeting in February by administering what he called a "heavy dose of reality therapy." Consider, he said, the danger posed by a new Soviet ICBM -- the SS-25, a mobile, three- stage, intercontinental version of the two-stage, intermediate-range SS-20. "Not a single one of the SS-20s that Gorbachev will be giving up can hit the U.S., and not a single SS-25 is affected...
Paul Simon's earlobes are too big, and his droning voice doesn't match the sprightly bow tie. Bruce Babbitt has trouble working up a convincing smile. Pete du Pont comes across as an eager accountant, and Al Gore could fit comfortably into the cast of Dynasty. All of them, however, could take a few lessons in TV communication skills from the Soviet Union's new media star, Mikhail Gorbachev...