Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eyes on the Prize is indispensable not just for its lucid treatment of the milestones of the era but for its keen eye on less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back...
Tambo may have adopted the softer tone with an eye toward his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington later this month. The U.S. shares the A.N.C.'s goal of a multiparty democracy in South Africa but objects to its violent tactics and Communist connections. Last week the Secretary departed on an eight-day trip to six black African countries that are considered U.S. allies -- Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Liberia -- but had no plans to meet with Tambo or visit South Africa during his journey. Said Shultz: "Right now there doesn't seem...
...burst in stock-market history. The Dow roared to 1856 in April, sparking tremendous euphoria on Wall Street. Just as suddenly, the market then began to dipsy-doodle, going through unprecedented one-day drops and climbs, including the worst ever single-day fall on Sept. 11 (86.61 points). The eye-popping volatility of the market was made possible by the steadily increasing computerization that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to flush through the markets at the push of a button. But for all the action, the Dow managed to spend most of its time in the region of about...
...Hill and meet with the bipartisan leaders in the Rotunda and there, in those streaks of sunlight that flood the old stone floor, strike a mutual doctrine on debt and spending and trade. In the shadows of the Speaker's Lobby last week, a Republican leader cocked his eye toward the House floor, teeming with old and new members in their first session, and said, "Ronald Reagan is still more popular out there right now than Jim Wright (the newly elected Democratic Speaker). Reagan could regain a lot of credibility and prestige up here if he would just get interested...
...unpracticed eye, Roth's ordinary routine might seem the epitome of boredom. His favorite place to write is a gray colonial 1790 farmhouse set on roughly 40 acres of land in Connecticut's Litchfield County. He bought the place in 1972, in part to get away from the demands and notoriety that had hounded him after Portnoy. He got plenty of solitude for his money, sometimes, he acknowledges, a bit too much: "Night up here can come down like a heavy thing." Before that happens, Roth has usually put in a reclusive day. By 9:30 each morning...