Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noon on Saturday, I squeezed my way into the enemy stands, my Crimson hat intact and only a press pass preventing possible attacks. Like Dustin Hoffman in the upcoming movie "Mad City," I was a journalist in a precarious position, abusing my privileges to snag some juicy quotes...
What Jiang's ringmasters have missed is that Deng's transforming moment was spontaneous, when he clapped a ten-gallon hat on his head in Texas and instantly conjured up the softer side of a regime the U.S. considered brutal, deceitful and threatening. Americans tend to judge countries in very human terms, so Jiang is going to have to find his own way to charm them into friendlier attitudes...
Whatever Jiang does in America will inevitably be compared to Deng's trip in 1979, when Deng was also trying to establish himself. Deng's defining moment was his donning of a 10-gallon hat in Texas. Could holding the Philadelphia Flyers' jersey with his name on the back be Jiang's moment...
...Colonial Williamsburg, Jiang posed for photographs wearing the three-cornered hat of American colonial times and met actors portraying Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. In a sudden change of plans, Gov. George F. Allen of Virginia decided to spend Tuesday morning campaigning for his successor and his wife attended a formal lunch for Jiang in his place...
...YORK: He's done the hula in Hawaii, worn a three-corner hat in Williamsburg, and been guided around the Capitol by Newt Gingrich. But now the King of Communism has come to the Big Apple--and he's gone native...