Word: hung
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Some Laborites feel that the best they can hope for in an early election is a "hung" Parliament, with the increasingly popular Alliance holding the balance of power. But if the economy continues to improve, thus vindicating the redoubtable Prime Minister's tough policies, Margaret Thatcher may not have to call the moving vans to 10 Downing Street for at least another few years...
Reagan asked the Establishment people into his tent. He had no other choice. Because his credibility after the Iran arms revelations hung in the balance, an immediate application of respected outside candor was required. TheTower board was almost inevitable, three wise men of deep experience. They opened the way for White House reform. The President's trusted intimate, former Senator Paul Laxalt, now a lawyer with a stately office on Pennsylvania Avenue, proposed a solution: former Senator Howard Baker as chief of staff. Baker, with his unrivaled knowledge of power's rituals, joined Frank Carlucci, the newly installed National Security...
...Castro had become something like the Algerian city of Oran that Albert Camus described in The Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went...
Hamnett, 39, has a deft hand for funk, and her clothes for men and women look lived-in even when they are freshly pressed, like something hung on a wooden peg behind the back door. She works largely and most successfully in utilitarian fabrics: cotton drill, lining silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions...
...broadstroke paintings of bullfighters and peasants decorating the walls, the loosely hung curtains and various knick-knacks all contribute to the quietly Mediterranean atmosphere--though expert Ted would interrupt here to emphasize that Portugal is an Atlantic country. To the uninitiated American, the effect is the same...