Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from 1977 to 1985, must never have spent a weekend at home. Besides a journalist's curiosity and a practiced eye for the pleasures of life, he has a knack for making destinations sound both seductive and easily negotiable. And the best part of it is that he is usually right. His long section on Britain is dead-on, and written with infectious gusto. His list of the best small restaurants in Venice...
...right under his nose. One of his first women's tennis dresses was reportedly a takeoff on an old Hunter College gym suit that his wife kept around the apartment. (The designer met his wife Ricky, a former schoolteacher, in 1964 on a visit to a New York City eye doctor's office, where she was working part time. They were married six months later.) Lauren took the inspiration for the ruby red glass bottles that contain his women's cologne, called Lauren, from his favorite antique inkwells. He solicits advice from his daughter Dylan, a seventh-grader, who suggested...
...gulf is too serious to be ignored. Windows in Kuwait already rattle from Iranian artillery bombardments just 15 miles away. Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states are growing increasingly nervous. "Complacency can be fatal," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer who has kept a close eye on Iran. "The ramifications of a possible Iranian victory are just so enormous that we've got to think them through...
...quite satisfactory enough of a 7 p.m. presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice...
...theology department at the University of Notre Dame, argued that the move would have a chilling effect on theologians, many of whom might leave Catholic colleges for teaching posts at non-Catholic schools. But conservatives hailed the move. James McFadden, lay editor of the conservative monthly Catholic Eye, compared Curran's position with "working for IBM and damning computers...