Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country home of an American diplomat. Unnerved by a slight accident involving her rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back in the States, in the third and final section, "Home," we return to Kate's rambling mental slide show which still lacks a story...
...cool Hart grew warmer in the spotlight. He dropped his diffidence and reached into crowds. On the stump he was clear and forceful. "Your sons shouldn't be sent to Central America to serve as bodyguards for some dictator," he declared at a Women for Hart rally in Concord. His oft repeated pitch that he represents a "new generation" of leadership found a receptive audience. New Hampshire's growing population of Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals) made a natural constituency: exit polls later showed that Hart won the under-40 vote by almost 3 to 1. Some 40% said...
Hart can come across as chilly and passionless, but he turns angry-passionately so-when news stories describe him as "cool and aloof." He has a reputation for humorlessness-and jokes about it. "I do have a sense of humor," he says. "But if you have to tell someone you have a sense of humor, I guess you're in trouble...
...witness had five weeks to prepare for the hearings. He had made courtesy calls on his most hostile senatorial inquisitors. Thus, through two days of questioning on his fitness to be Attorney General, Edwin Meese last week remained cool, articulate and unsurprised by the questions of critical Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Barring some bombshell disclosure in the continued hearings this week, Ronald Reagan's longtime aide will almost surely win Senate confirmation to replace the resigning William French Smith...
...Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until dispersed by the boisterousness of the finale...