Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ambassador to London Kingman Brewster believes that envoys in this era could actually be more rather than less useful, mostly because they can pro vide "real perspective" and "not just the flash-flash, bang-bang, instant short focus on every dramatic event." Although Brewster favors selective summitry, he argues that only diplomats on the scene can provide the "accurate perceptions" and "nuance and detail" that are essential to the summit participants...
Economists differ in their explanation of how a country leaves simply galloping inflation and enters the stratosphere of hyperinflation, where prices may go up 1,000% per month. But all agree there is some inflation flash point at which people become convinced that prices will never stop rising and lose all confidence in their currency. Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns: "At that time it appears that anything is better than holding money. People start putting everything into any tangible good they can find...
...Suddenly, and with only the slightest motivation, the protagonist is afflicted by marital conflict, pill addiction, desperate loneliness and a nervous collapse. True, these tragedies happened in life, but in the movie they seem phony: Lynn's later personal traumas are not so much dramatized as displayed like flash cards for predictable audience response. As the screenplay loses its energy, so does most everything else. Apted's direction takes on the facile, rushed quality of his 1975 film about the rise of a rock star, Stardust. Spacek's big scene, her onstage breakdown, is so imprecisely drawn...
...remain, the freshmen. Calvin Dixon arrived with havy advance billing, but made no one forget Oscar Robertson. No one questions his potential--one evening of watching those moves dispels any doubts--yet the end result only adequate. He shot poorly (36 per cent), and only infrequently put all that flash to work...
...Jimmy Carter? "He is a complex, contradictory personality," Mazlish and Diamond say. They continue in a flash of insight: "Most of us, of course, are complex and full of contradictions." Carter's brand of neo-populist rhetoric and waffling reflects those contradictions. Expediency exists as part of Carter's "realism." The president blurs the lines between liberalism and conservatism because he must be "true to his own character, with its basic need to embrace contradictions." Carter's remembrances of his downtrodden childhood, his career as a "nuclear engineer," his faith in Bert Lance--all explained...