Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buckley's Eisenhower is a refreshing bit of revisionism. From behind the famous grin and fractured press-conference syntax, the Great Golfer emerges as crisp, shrewd and decisive: "Herter, go back and study the minutes of all National Security Council meetings going back three months at least. Then assume everything we said is known to the Kremlin. Report back to me, and advise me how this will affect a) our policy; b) our negotiations; c) our public statements . . . Twining? Do the same thing . . . Get back to me by the fifth of October, or by the time their missiles land...
...Standing between you and assembly line rock." Apparently wishing to dissociate itself from the squadrons of European bands flying in with the new "dance" sound, U2 could succeed even without Irish passports. The group has the superbly danceable beat of Ul-travox, replacing only the flashy electronics and crisp engineering of the high-tech groups, with the simple melodic energy of the best sort of folk music...
...into the receiving line. Mal Fitch and his twelve-piece band, fixtures on the Dallas debutante scene, strike up some Glenn Miller. The guests snake out of the ballroom, through the foyer, to the front door, where fleets of limousines are still depositing the newly arrived. The men emerge crisp in white or black tie; the women are elegant in gowns of every description, occasionally worn under the pelt of some endangered species...
...riding abreast through the palace gates--is so splendid that the reader, like the crowd, waits in hushed and admiring awe. This is history at its best, some say--a vision so powerful and majestic it transports the reader to the streets of London on that crisp May morning, 1910. Through her detailed and evocative narrative, Tuchman turns history into a tale, invading a province largely abandoned to the writers of historical fiction...
Dressed in crisp glen plaids, a white handkerchief neatly puffed from breast pocket, Haig is a dandy. He seems the very model of the modern military diplomat. He has a square face, a terrier's chin and eyes that obscure a great deal. He loves his work. He just may win his campaign to be the predominant formulator of foreign policy...