Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson figures he knows the secret to success. Sometimes he's right; more often, he's not. The propects fall into two general categories: those who attempt to stand out with outrageous garb and Soho hair, and those who try to blend in with what they consider the "cool norm...
Dewitt finds a delightful Bogart duo at the Brattle. CASABLANCA is a love vs. war flick with Bogart saying a lot of meaninglessly cool things to Ingrid Bergman--whose love handle are not featured in the film. Anyway, war wins out the end, proving that, given the alternative of bedding down with a gorgeous Swede and playing around with a rickety old plane, men almost always prefer machines to blondes...
Events rush on. In the Roosevelt Room, outside Reagan's office, the Soviet visitors were nervous. When the interview began, they read carefully scripted questions that also were statements against American positions. Reagan covered familiar ground on arms reduction, Star Wars, the standard sore points. All very proper, very cool. He told them that there would be a fresh U.S. arms proposal, but otherwise he said nothing new. The novelty was the fact of the interview...
Opposition figures for the most part greeted the new crackdown with cool defiance. "We are already accustomed to the laws of repression, so we plan to go on as before," said Erik Ramirez, president of the Social Christian Party. Echoing that feeling was Luis Rivas Leiva, secretary- general of the Social Democratic Party. Said he: "We are always evading restrictions. We have to use our imagination to evade these limits." Rivas discounts Ortega's claims that opposition activities are coordinated. Ortega may have dropped a lid on domestic unrest, but the move is not likely to help his attempts...
Despite these clinical assessments, the Dorns command affection and sympathy. Where some might find pretensions and cool blood, Brookner sees form and responsibilities: Sofka the young widow forfeiting romance to direct her family's fortunes, "like a general on the evening of a great campaign," Alfred shelving his cherished books for the life of an industrialist ("His character . . . will be a burden to him rather than an asset. But that is the way with good characters...