Word: doves
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Mondale can't have a missile in one hand and a dove in the other." His rivals have not responded with assaults on his plea for deep defense cuts, primarily because they do not see how it would gain them any votes. Jackson sometimes complains that the press does not feature his stands on issues as prominently as those of his rivals. But he has failed to provide figures on how much his domestic programs, such as increased aid to education and job retraining, would cost...
...whole side of the net," Blair recalled. "I dove over, It hit the tip of my stick and bounced off my chest...
Zetra, the skating arena in Sarajevo, is a pleasant enough place. Set in a valley just below the stadium where the Olympic flame burns, it spreads like the curved wing of a dove .... stretched out over the snow. Inside, there are comfortable wooden seats, polite ushers and concession stands that sell chocolate and local brandy, a better fix against a winter night than popcorn and beer. Yet to hear of the doings in the figure-skating competition that took place in this outwardly cheerful spot last week was to confuse sport with war dispatches. There were hints of dark intrigue...
...last decade. From Israel came a delegation of Knesset (Parliament) members from the Alignment (the Labor and Mapam parties) and from the Shinui party--both of them in the opposition to the governing Likud coalition. The head of the Israeli delegation, Yossi Sarid, 43, is the most salient dove in the Labor party and one of the most talented members of Knesset. He is, in a way, the flagbearer for tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, who believe in a dialogue with the Palestinians and the Arab states and strongly oppose the war in Lebanon...
...first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some of her own old-fashioned wooing. Williams' characters may not be as fragile as Laura's menagerie, but they deserve to be handled with care. Tandy's hand, like that of the production...