Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...striped tie, Gorbachev stood at the head of a receiving line in the white-and-gilt Hall of St. George. Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and First Vice President Vasili Kuznetsov were by his side as he greeted the foreign dignitaries. Gorbachev looked his guests in the eye, occasionally giving a visitor a two-handed grip or flashing a reserved smile of recognition...
This reputation rests, for Americans, almost wholly on one painting. It was no slight thing to have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like...
Unfortunately, Gilbert's tender heart finds it impossible to kill the pig and prefers to let it carry out its pungent existence in his suburban home. Meanwhile, the evil Ministry of Food inspector Wormold (Bill Paterson) is keeping his Big Brother-esque eye on him. A man with neither smell nor taste, Wormold is fast becoming suspicious of Gilbert...
There is no precedent. A corporate star becomes Secretary of the Treasury and & then White House chief of staff, a descending curve by normal calculation. Don Regan is not normal. "At dinner parties I sit below the salt now," he says, a flash in his cunning eye. "There are a lot of interesting people there...
...eye job," Regan says. He is constantly being hustled. His role is to hear the pure tones, to sort out the voices that are most often right and get them to the President. Partly this is a matter of mastering new information. Regan found that the Ortega they talked about at the White House was Nicaragua's leftist leader and not Katherine Ortega, Treasurer of the U.S., who signs the money. On TV he was taken aback when asked what the Administration planned to do about AIDS, not the balance of trade...