Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duration, it has stretched to two, with the last events now scheduled in late 1987. Beginning with cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it has spread to trend-spotting stores (New York City's Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's). Then it mushroomed as smaller institutions around the nation clamored to join...
...popularity of biking took off after the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and it shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, the craze is becoming as much a social as an athletic phenomenon. Says Cyclist Lenny Goodman of Fountain Valley, Calif.: "I see a lot of people in really fancy clothing not doing much riding, just standing around talking...
...Assad's cooperation was his own future standing in Middle East politics. Partly to make the point to Washington that Damascus is a useful place to do business in the area, Assad has helped out in previous prisoner situations, notably the release of downed U.S. Navy Flyer Robert Goodman in 1984 and possibly the freeing of CNN Beirut Correspondent Jeremy Levin in February. One possible U.S. favor Assad may have in mind in exchange for his latest assistance: a request for U.S. pressure on Israel to abandon its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon...
There is one major difference between the elusive Andropov and Gorbachev. While KGB disinformers spread tantalizing tales about Andropov's taste for Scotch, Benny Goodman and Western pulp fiction, the former chief of the Soviet intelligence services remained the shadowy figure he had always been. Andropov, throughout his life, never traveled to the West and was seen only from afar at Kremlin ceremonies. Gorbachev, in contrast, is responsible for creating his own image abroad. He has what one Washington Kremlinologist calls "a real sense of public relations...
First Novelist Goodman fictionalizes this authentic American romance from its heady undergraduate days to the mournful playing of Nearer, My God, to Thee in a rainy French graveyard. In the process he anatomizes the fatal innocence that accepted the conflict over there as an extension of the field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero...