Word: ironization
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Margaret Thatcher should serve as an example to America [June 20]. She represents many of the virtues that have faded in our nation. She is hardworking, thrifty, self-reliant and not afraid to believe in herself and her ideals. Britain's Iron Lady is as classically American as Superman...
Thus news organizations had every reason to worry about how the Poles would handle the daunting task of accommodating 700 foreign journalists covering the visit of Pope John Paul II, a story of potent political import. As it turned out, Poland performed impressively for an Iron Curtain country. There were few overt obstacles to coverage, except a lack of open, informed sources and an enforced distance from the main events. Lamented one photographer: "Every papal trip, I have to get a bigger lens because I am farther away...
Heckler's opinion, which is shared by many medical detectives, is rooted in a century of victories over diseases whose ravages once shaped the course of history. Only a few decades ago, fear of a polio outbreak could empty schools; victims in iron lungs would be put on exhibit in small towns to raise money for the March of Dimes. All that is history...
Only hours after Shultz's testimony, Foreign Minister Gromyko made a speech before the Supreme Soviet (see WORLD) that was strikingly similar in tone and outlook. Both sides, it seemed, were showing a velvet glove, albeit with an iron fist inside...
...tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other by a scheming rich woman whom theatergoers will have no trouble recognizing as a caricature of the Iron Lady. However these dramatists voted last Thursday, they must be grudgingly grateful that their pet beastie will be around for a few more years. She is the noose they can pull around their tight little island...