Word: clingingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A week before voters go to the polls to choose the makeup of the 100th Congress and determine the course of Ronald Reagan's last two years in Washington, races around the country are particularly notable for two things: the absence of national themes and a conspicuous lack of good...
Flying home from Reykjavik at the start of last week, Ronald Reagan appeared to be winging from one debacle to another. The dejection in the President's carriage as he walked out of Hofdi house, the disappointment etched into every line of Secretary of State George Shultz's face as...
Several hours later police identified the comatose gunman as Michel Vaujour, 35, perhaps France's most notorious criminal and a four-time escapee from French justice. Convicted of crimes ranging from theft to attempted murder, Vaujour made a spectacular prison getaway last May by clinging to the skid of a...
The explosions dramatically darkened the mood of the City of Light and its people. "For the second time in my life," said an 84-year-old woman, "Paris is a city under enemy occupation." Everywhere there were police and military troops, checking parcels, inspecting shoulder bags, patrolling public toilets. At...
Of these, the most important literary event is Figaro. Horvath was 30 in 1931 when his sardonic Tales from the Vienna Woods won him Germany's Kleist Prize. But Hitler's rise to power aborted Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro...