Word: fleetingness
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Mugabe met with Nkomo secretly last month to explore ways to defuse the volatile situation, but the results of the session are not known. Low-level officials of both parties are working on a political compromise that would give Nkomo and his followers a larger role in the government. But...
When U.S. Presidents go abroad, they usually make a splash by announcing bilateral agreements, making blustery speeches or starring in extravagant ceremonial tableaux. By contrast, Ronald Reagan's five-day trip through volatile Latin America last week was low-key. In Brazil, where Reagan spent half his time, there...
WITH THE GROUNDWORK thus laid out. Herzog sends Kinski and his crew up the river. They chug in a rickety steamship chiristened the Molly-Aida--a name which contains the symbolic kernel of film. The yoking of Molly (Claudia Cordinate), a brothel madame, and Fitzearruldo's mistress, and Verdi's...
The Reagan Administration welcomed the shoot-the-moon investment frenzy, even if it might turn out to be fleeting. Treasury officials predicted that lower interest rates would clear the way for at least a modest recovery in 1983. Said one top Treasury Department official: "The logjam has been broken. I...
A correspondent need not be as brash as ABC'S Sam Donaldson to come up with scoops at the White House. But Woodruff is painfully aware that early in her career her politeness meant she could be suckered out of a story even after she had it. Her book...