Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refund on her country's outsize contribution to the Community's budget. Though Thatcher cut her demand to $1.12 billion and Mitterrand sweetened his offer to $935 million, the gap could not be bridged. Thatcher, grumbled Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, "used to be the Iron Lady. Now she is Mme. Nyet...
...like to cast things in iron; when arrangements are made by mail or even by phone there's always the possibility of a misunderstanding," said Jonathan A Epstein '84, president of the 95-member orchestra...
...high voice, and I've taken it even higher. He can sing low?down to a basso low C?but he prefers to sing as high as he does because pop tenors have more range to create style." The power of gossip is such that it has penetrated the iron gates that surround the Jackson never-never land out in Encino. It takes no effort of imagination to calculate what talk like that must do to a proud father and a mother who is a devout churchwoman. In addition to his door-to-door field service, which, according...
...things in his face." Occasionally Jackson comes out to the yard. Sometimes he will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times, he is too far away for anyone to see his face at all. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles, with other bureaus
...freeway to Encino we talk about cars and boats and nothing. We take the Havenhurst exit, and Jackson says, "This is our neighborhood." We cross Ventura and almost immediately turn into a driveway with an iron gate that swings slowly open. A TV camera stares into the car. "Everybody knows who's comin' now," Jackson says. The gate shuts and we pass a guard station. A uniformed man nods his head to Jackson. We start down a driveway Lined with well-trimmed shrubs. At the end, on the right, stands a four-car Tudor-style garage. Above...