Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked like a crowded parking lot: an American military C-141, its tail marked with a large Stars and Stripes, an Algerian transport plane, a commercial Austrian airliner -- in all, about 15 foreign planes, not counting a regular fleet of Soviet Ilyushin 76s and Tupelev 154s. Hundreds of dark-clad figures milled about. The usual tight military control that exists at every Soviet airport seemed to have all but broken down...
...Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen by Stephen Rebello and Richard Allen (Abbeville; 342 pages; $75) displays them in both black and white and glorious Technicolor, along with a witty history of this peculiar art form. Charles Laughton's grasping hand reaches for a half-clad Maureen O'Hara in a teaser for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr gaze out from Crossroads (1942), "where women," promises the caption, "wait...
...alternating soothing words to an audience of pinstripes at the U.N. with tough talk to a pistol-packing, fatigues-clad troublemaker in Havana, Gorbachev is trying to demonstrate that his is a kinder, gentler U.S.S.R. that is now in the business of providing diplomatic solutions to the world's many military problems. However shaky its basis in fact, the Soviet campaign has been working. Gorbachev, says a senior U.S. diplomat at the U.N., "has single-handedly made the Soviet Union internationally respectable...
...stands were teeming with fans clad in fur coats, fuzzy mittens, Crimson scarves and Bulldog sweatshirts as far as the eye could see. And in Section 41, that's about all the eye could see. This fine section was reserved exclusively for freshmen and alumni who didn't contribute enough money...
...cheers that followed, several blue blazer-clad students broke into a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again," as older Republicans smoked cigars and cheered. Children, wearing sweatshirts emblazoned with Bush-Quayle stickers, wandered about the party. One boy clamored in front of the TV cameras and said, "I like Bush--it got me on TV three days...