Word: geoffreys
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Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
...Gender Theory and the Yale School," she cites by name established figures such as J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartmann for their complacent refusal to consider the significance of gender for contemporary hermeneutics--the fatal blindspot, she observes, in their theories...
Standing in a long reception line, I was too preoccupied watching Geoffrey, the Toys "R" Us giraffe, dance by to notice a dinky little man in his wake. Before I had a chance to penetrate his baffling disguise (Shatner was out of regulation Starfleet uniform), the great one was gone, leaving only a trail of hair from his rapidly balding pate behind. No story this time, but it was well worth it to bask in the aura of greatness...
...time the U.S. and its European allies work out an answer to the Kremlin's latest proposals, Gorbachev may not have one or several new ones. As the U.S. and its allies consider a response, they must remain alert to the possibility, as Britain's Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe put it, that the "swiftness of the Soviet hand could deceive the Western...
...breathlessly declared her most "fascinating and invigorating" ever. At a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Thatcher and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev delayed the second act for 20 minutes while they conferred over smoked sturgeon about arms control. The next day Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was forced to improvise at a British embassy luncheon when the Prime Minister arrived two hours late. Reason: her morning meeting with Gorbachev had gone into overtime...