Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot get too excited about President Reagan's off-the-record comment about bombing the Soviet Union [PRESS, Aug. 27]. What I am excited about is the fact that Reporter Ann Devroy and the Gannett News Service went ahead and printed the remark, knowing the seriousness of their action and knowing it was made in jest...
Strauch and Spencer were unavailable for comment this week...
...months' detention for disturbing public order. Dozens of others were briefly arrested at peaceful pro-Solidarity demonstrations around the country. Nonetheless, contacts among former activists have multiplied to the point where there is talk of holding a national summit to organize a "shadow cabinet" to monitor and comment on government actions...
...father from a hectoring apparition to an onscreen tyrant, and provides a thrilling new climax in which the dying Mozart dictates his Requiem to a Salieri racked with guilt, jealousy and awe. If the operatic excerpts occasionally impede dramatic flow, they capture the Mozartian spirit as well as comment, with typical Forman bravura, on the theme of an oaf who makes miracles with music: in the Don Giovanni parody, a dove flies out of a horse...
...mixture of relief and elation evident in that comment was amply justified. Not quite 24 hours earlier, as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee prepared to answer questions about her own and her husband's taxes and finances, it was by no means certain that there would be any meaningful "rest of the campaign." But after Ferraro's bravura performance, the MONDALE-EAGLETON buttons that had sprouted on Republican lapels seemed an exercise in wishful thinking. Some Democrats came close to euphoria; more realistic ones gave thanks that their campaign was still able to roll...