Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately Joffe and Davidson have not managed to create a whole movie, but two separate ones. The first movie is the better one; it ends when Pran is forced to leave the French embassy. The second movie posed a critical formal problem to its makers: how to balance Pran's efforts to get out of Cambodia with Schanberg's campaign to find...
...more formal Regan shop, news leaks may be fewer and public insights into the internal workings of the White House more limited. Regan once ordered two of his senior Treasury deputies to clear their press contacts through his trusted public affairs assistant, Ann McLaughlin. (McLaughlin, now Interior Department Under Secretary, is a leading candidate to become Regan's deputy at the White House.) While Regan can turn on his gruff charm and provide as lively an interview as anyone else in the Administration, he is seldom inclined to do so. In sharp contrast to Baker, whose mastery of keeping...
...Students are also offered courses in popular culture, seminars in car crashes and cereal-box texts, a professor named Alfonse ("Fast Food") Stompanato and a teaching staff of New York emigres, "smart, thuggish, movie- mad, trivia-crazed . . . here to decipher the natural language of the culture, to make a formal method of the shiny pleasures they'd known in their Europe- shadowed childhoods...
...first time that Gromyko and Reagan had felt disposed to echo each other. But, then, they faced an unfamiliar task: describing an agreement that Gromyko had reached with Secretary of State George Shultz. To be sure, it was only an agreement to talk some more--specifically, to resume formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit understanding that...
Gromyko in fact did threaten to walk out on the spot if the U.S. would not renounce, in advance of any formal bargaining, its Strategic Defense Initiative to develop a system that could intercept and destroy nuclear missiles. Shultz replied that the U.S. would rather leave Geneva without an agreement than abandon SDI, which is popularly known as Star Wars. The Soviets decided to try again later and kept talking. Nonetheless, said Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, a member of Shultz's team, "if the final session Tuesday afternoon had ended on schedule (at 5 p.m.), the conference would...