Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Ryan's report, the Army's use of Barbie began in the confusing aftermath of the war, as American attention shifted from defeating the fascist foe to a more subtle ideological battleground. While the CIA was in the process of being established, the Army was faced with the daunting task of assembling an effective ring of European informants to spy on Germany as well as on the Soviets and the other occupying powers. For help, the Army turned to veterans of Hitler's police and intelligence services, like Barbie, whom the CIC placed...
...Capitol Hill. Congressional Democrats-and a few of Clark's rivals within the Administration-relish the prospect, believing that such appearances will lay bare his shaky grasp of foreign policy. Says one detractor: "I think he'll eventually hang himself." But for the moment, friend and foe alike may find it worthwhile to drop by and see Uncle Bill...
...always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament...
...burst of wartime solidarity, the People's Republic of China once declared that its friendship with Viet Nam was as close as "lips and teeth." But after their common foe, the U.S., withdrew its troops from Southeast Asia in 1973, the toothy smiles between Peking and Hanoi gradually turned to frowns. Today, says a Chinese official, the relationship is one of "rifles to rifles and artillery to artillery." Nowhere is that hostility more evident than along the 800-mile border between the two countries. TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a group of Western journalists who made...
...delightful column on political invective [June 20]. Unfortunately, a half-page summary cannot do justice to America's considerable contribution to the art of insult. One of the best flamethrowers in our early House of Representatives was the brilliant Virginia Congressman John Randolph. He once described a political foe as "a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...