Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four months at Leningrad University in 1974, Kohan began tracking the Kremlin's rising star after joining TIME as a reporter-researcher in 1975. As an associate editor in the World section, he wrote the March 1985 cover story on Gorbachev's appointment to the top job of General Secretary. A week later Kohan left New York City to report from TIME's Bonn bureau, where Gorbachev's new policies held a constant fascination...
Since taking over the Moscow bureau last June, Kohan has found that Gorby watching is a seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock job. The General Secretary's four-car Moscow motorcade often whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again...
Style wars. Despite the warming trends in U.S.-Soviet relations, Nancy and Raisa would be at home in the frozen-food section of a supermarket. At lunch in the Sutton Place townhouse of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Mrs. Reagan interrupted Mrs. Gorbachev's lecture on the need for the two nations to become more open with one another. "Haven't we? Haven't we?" she cut in. Amid the shop-till-you-drop types, Barbara Bush was the only guest wearing the kind of suit a grandchild could spill apple juice on with impunity. She raised...
Gorby the sequel. One-upping his walk on the wild side of Washington's Connecticut Avenue last year, Gorbachev twice leaped from his ZIL limo: in front of Bloomingdale's, and earlier on the Great White Way in sight of the Times Square display screen alternating WELCOME GENERAL SECRETARY GORBACHEV with an ad for My Stepmother Is an Alien...
Nyet this time. Donald Trump, who had taken to describing the quasi-summit as a Gorbachev visit to the Trumps with a stop at the U.N. squeezed in, was scratched from the schedule before the Soviet General Secretary ever came to town. But the developer's hopes revived when he heard that Gorbachev was in front of Trump Tower. He raced down from his 26th-floor office, but the man waiting on the street turned out to be a Gorby impersonator who had won a look-alike contest. Trump shook hands and posed for a picture anyway...