Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest news stories of the year, the common theme running through the large-type headlines of 1987 was Ronald Reagan. He was there not so much for his accomplishments as for his lack of them. "Terrible, terrible," said Nancy Reagan, herself a victim of cancer, in a year-end interview with the Washington Post. "Overall, I guess the whole year has been the roughest...
...gesture of vulnerability, only to clench them into fists a moment later. All the time his intense eyes lock onto a listener's. The eyes, he once told an audience in Prague, never lie. Much of his animation comes through even in translation. In a TV interview, for example, he may pause reflectively after a question, start an answer with a few slow phrases, then burst into a torrent of words that an interpreter can barely keep up with...
...times, though it is not certain which of his relatives are meant. His father Sergei was conscripted and fought at the front for four years, during which "Misha" (the common Russian nickname for Mikhail) must have spent much time alone with his mother Maria Panteleyevna Gorbachev. In a recent interview on Soviet TV, she recalled that at one period during the war Gorbachev could not go to school for several months because he had no shoes. Sergei wrote home urging Maria Panteleyevna to sell anything she could and buy shoes because "Misha must go to school." Maria Panteleyevna, now well...
...technique of harvesting grain quickly by using flying squads of combines, was judged a smashing success. The idea was probably Kulakov's, but it was first tried in the district of Ipatovsky, in Stavropol Krai, under Gorbachev's supervision. The young regional politician was accorded the honor of an interview on the front page of Pravda, his first taste of national publicity...
...three generations. There was little question that he killed himself intentionally. Renzo Levi said that his 67-year-old father had been depressed; friends spoke of Levi's dark moods. Yet despair was not what the outside world detected last year after Philip Roth climbed those stairs to interview Levi in his study. "He seemed to me," wrote the American novelist, "inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creature empowered by the forest's most astute intelligence...