Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that we had a man for president of Radcliffe did not seem unusual to us. I suppose I must have met President Jordan a few times, but I don't remember having any contact with him at all. The women deans, Mildren Sherman, Kathleen Elliott and Wilma Kirby-Miller, seemed to be running the undergraduate show...
...speechwriting in the Reagan White House was Bently Elliott, and Ben's secretary was a woman in her early 20s named Donna. She adored Reagan. When he came back from long trips, when his helicopter landed on the White House lawn, the sound and whirr of the engine and blades would make our offices shake. We'd all stop and listen. Donna would call out, spoofing the mother in a '50s sitcom, "Daddy's home!" But you know, that's how I think a lot of people felt when Reagan was in the White House: Daddy's home. A wise...
Another memory. Ben Elliott went with Reagan on his trip to China in 1984. Reagan spoke everywhere, as the ruling gerontocracy watched and weighed. The elders did not notice that the young of China were falling in love with the American President (that love was expressed in part in Beijing's great square during the democracy movement of 1989). One day as Reagan spoke about the history of America and the nature of democracy, a young Chinese student, standing in the back and listening to the translation, turned to the American visitor, Ben Elliott. He didn't know much English...
...Cuban missile crisis in the standoff with Iraq, he is being subjected to harassment about whether he had sexual relations with Lewinsky. It is potentially disastrous that the leadership of the Western world is in the hands of what appears to be a democracy gone mad. IAN ELLIOTT Reigate, England...
...film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...