Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the two summits, Reagan will hold bilateral discussions with the leaders of his host countries. His reception in all four capitals should be cordial. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will surely express her gratitude that Washington has come down firmly on Britain's side in the war with Argentina. Mitterrand will restate his support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended...
...least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...members who quit the Likud, Yitzhak Peretz and Amnon Linn, wanted to express their discontent with the government's policies, notably its handling of the economy and of recent disturbances on the occupied West Bank. To Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, it seemed the right moment to deliver what he hoped would be a political coup de grace to Begin. Only two months ago, Begin had barely survived a 58-to-58 tie vote on a no-confidence motion. Peres found a new weapon in the government's latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone...
...leagues were calling. After his debut feature film The Sugarland Express, an eccentric car-chase comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Spielberg found himself off the coast of Martha's Vineyard directing a huge cast and crew-and one wayward mechanical shark-in Jaws. A 55-day shooting schedule ballooned to 155 days; the $4 million budget soared to $8 million. Studio executives were threatening to close down the film and put "Bruce," the shark, on exhibit as part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty...
...depressing truth is that travelers tend to be bores. They tend to be waterbugs skittering across the surface of other cultures without learning anything important that they can express. They learn fugitive skills-how to avoid being cheated, how to cross borders. They come back in a daze of wonder. But even today's writers who travel are remarkably good: Paul Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar), Edward Hoagland (African Calliope), Jonathan Raban (Old Glory: An American Voyage) and the splendidly mordant V.S. Naipaul...