Word: jousting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan and Andropov joust over arms control...
...from a man who walked in with a suitcase full of cash, rolled the dice once, won and vanished into the desert with two suitcases full of cash. By the time Alvarez caught up with the World Series, it had grown to a knightly joust with 75 entrants for the main event, each of whom put up $10,000 to play. The game (hold 'em, an exotic species of seven-card stud) was a freeze-out, with play continuing until one man held all the chips...
...SPORTS, political campaigns end in a championship competition. But unlike the baseball season, for example, which offers 162 direct clashes even before the playoffs, long campaign seasons provide few head-to-head confrontations allowing fans the opportunity to cheer and pundits the occasion to analyze. As a result, any joust short of actual balloting receives an inordinate amount of attention. This is especially so for debates...
Like squires crowding around a knight before a joust, the people huddle around the guy pressing the Fire button. The cynics stand back, sipping their icy Cokes like isolated exjousters grinning in their ale. All stare at the machines, not at each other. The glare stifles even the noisy. These would-be heroes can forge only a cold camaraderie as they pursue their isolated quests. Searches for ever more tenuous shadow. People enter an arcade together. Inside, they separate...
...ribbon-cutting in the press room by the President and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Brady smiled as the President told reporters, "This room is built over a swimming pool. It isn't true, however, that the floor has been hinged." Riposted Brady, who has always enjoyed a friendly joust with the press...