Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the princess has been scrutinized by cameras for most of her 20 years, usually from an intrusive position. Many of her modeling efforts show an awkwardness in formal pose that may come partly from inexperience and partly too from something inborn: a sense that she may always be in an adversarial position with the camera. Lineage has given her career impetus, but it is a feeling of irresolution that gives her professional photos much of their impact. Most models work hard to beguile the camera, and Stephanie is clearly learning to do that. But in some shots, it looks...
...President's arrival in Bonn last week, the Administration had certainly done that. At a press conference, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes revealed that beginning this week, the U.S. would put into effect an economic embargo against Nicaragua. The sanctions, as President Ronald Reagan put it in a formal message to Congress, "should be seen by the government of Nicaragua, and those who abet it, as unmistakable evidence that we take seriously the obligation to protect our security interests and those of our friends...
Shortly before the last formal summit session on Saturday morning, Kohl brought Reagan and Mitterrand together for an unscheduled private talk. The U.S. President could not budge his French colleague, and the final summit communique noted only that "most" participants wanted trade talks in early 1986. In context, that bland wording was an unprecedented admission of lack of unanimity. Mitterrand then appeared at a press conference to proclaim, "I have my responsibilities toward France, toward French farm producers and toward Europe. I am defending a just cause...
...major topic at the summit: how to keep an American economic slowdown from triggering world recession. That will require faster growth in other countries, and some gingerly efforts are under way to promote it, but there was little analysis in Bonn of whether those efforts are adequate. At the formal sessions and in the final communique, the heads of government merely described the policies they are already following and pledged themselves to such unexceptionable goals as fighting inflation and creating jobs. Such cascades of generalities are hardly unusual at economic summits; nonetheless, the lack of deeper discussion amounted...
...take the girl out of the Social Register (which they have), but you can't take the Social Register out of the girl. The formal charity affair in Manhattan last week was ever so just so--she in her pearls, taffeta debutante dress and full-length white kid gloves, and her brother Philipp Molzer in white tie and tails. After all, the honored lady of the evening was Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, the New Jersey socialite whose family lines reach back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Barrows primly described the evening as "a lovely affair." Never mind that...