Word: ironization
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...most important aspect of Bush's visit was its symbolism. "The Iron Curtain has begun to part," the President declared in an eloquent speech at the Karl Marx University in Budapest. In front of Gdansk's Lenin shipyard, he told cheering Poles, "America stands with you." While offering lavish praise for the courage shown by Poland and Hungary, he avoided baiting the Soviet Union, a sensible strategy for dealing with a bear that for the moment seems unusually amiable...
...Foreman be serious? What kind of odds would Vegas put on him against Iron Mike Tyson, the current titleholder? Boxing does not take kindly to reruns by its geriatric set. Witness Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and Ali. Foreman, the boxer turned preacher, is older than the other ex-champs who tried in vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying...
None of this bothers Foreman, who KO'd 42 opponents in compiling a 45-2 record. He is all vigor and determination these summer days, slugging at the bags and straining on the iron. This is a new Foreman, he is quick to advise: "Forty is no death sentence; age is only a problem if you make it one." He looks as menacing as he did that night in 1973 when he blockbusted Joe Frazier clear off the canvas to win the title. His 19-in. biceps bulge with muscle, his thighs are thick as saplings, his huge...
...merry but with a sober purpose: raising money for the defense of Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., 47, and his son-in-law, Marietta policeman Roger Ray Hilton, 27. The two are charged with scheming to kidnap a suspected north Texas drug dealer and torture him with an electric curling iron to elicit information...
...passing, being replaced by what has been dubbed a "Fax Americana." America's influence will derive, in part, from its role as an exemplar of ideas and a purveyor of information. Ronald Reagan, in a speech in London last month, talked about how "electronic beams blow through the Iron Curtain as if it were lace." In Bratislava, Czechoslovak students sometimes drop by the city's new hotel, equipped for international television reception, where the maids let them watch the music-video shows. Recently, the students have been tuning in to reports from China instead. George Orwell prophesied that advances...