Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It will be remembered as the summit at which intimacy and symbolism overshadowed disputes about substance, and its spirit was captured during a private moment between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on the morning after they signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little...
| The whole nation sized up Gorbachev and Reagan last week on television. This week the two meet to sign a historic arms treaty. -- A look at the evolution of the zero option, from hard- line proposal to reality. -- Raisa and Nancy will get together for coffee, but they won' t...
He's done it before. In 1984 he called a proposed design for a new wing of the National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved friend." In the same speech he characterized a planned Mies van der Rohe office building in London's financial district...
To Kilborn, who says that he is a regular at Cambridge political protests, last night's protest was indicative of a new mood afoot in the country. "The nation faces an historic time of hope and positive attitudes," said Kilborn, who added that he was very excited about the proposed...
Down-home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the theme of The White House Family Cookbook, by Henry Haller (Random House; 441 pages; $19.95). Executive chef at that august address for 21 years, the Swiss-born Haller retired in October, just as this reverential book was coming off the presses. Most...