Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some industry observers charge that ABC has relied too heavily on a few producers, notably Spelling, who started this season with a hefty seven hours of programming on the network. The audience, perhaps suffering from an overdose of Spelling's brand of glossy escapism, was notably cool to his new shows (like the disastrous Glitter), as well as to some former hits (Matt Houston). While NBC was having success with such novelties as The Cosby Show and Miami Vice, ABC seemed unable to extricate itself from its deepening...
...tour of the British Museum, where Karl Marx wrote part of Das Kapital, he mused, "If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum." Later, as photographers clicked away, Gorbachev pleaded for a respite: "Comrades, economize your supplies." Yet the British also found Gorbachev a cool, reflective man quite capable of a steely riposte. When a Conservative Member of Parliament asked about the persecution of religious minorities in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev shot back: "You govern your society and you leave us to govern ours." The visitor's annoyance, the M.P. recalled, was "electrifying...
...stone, their chance mosaic was far richer than the asphalt's colourless monotony." Winter is a cause of wonderment as sleighs move silently through the snow-hushed city. Finally comes the happiest of seasons in Russia, spring, with its ritual opening of windows. "Fresh spring air, wild and cool, fills the room, bringing with it the city's bright polyphony of voices, bells, and squealing wheels . . . the pulse of the living town...
...leaving the U.N., but Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, is not the sort to cool off on the sidelines. At a Washington party celebrating her imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there...
...Administration did pull its act together in one respect last week. Reagan admitted that Budget Director David Stockman had been "blowing his cool" in painfully candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel...