Word: keying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng attended the first Red Guard rallies, but he was soon singled out as a key target of the radical youths who spearheaded Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Teng was excoriated in the press as "Liu's henchman" and "even more sinister and dangerous than Liu." Pamphlets and wall posters claimed that Teng's consuming bourgeois passions were mah-jongg and bridge. While supposedly on inspection tours, it was charged, Teng was traveling around the country on specially chartered trains and planes with his card-playing cronies...
...Administration launched an all-fronts lobbying effort. Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and other Carter advisers phoned every Senator and key Congressman to ask for support and to answer questions. The White House was also considering asking big businessmen and big farmers for endorsements. Said a White House aide: "It is going to be hard for Senators to raise hell if the power structures in their home states say that China is a good deal." The opposition is hurt further by the fact that Carter is backed on China by some prominent...
...problems of the following months. While the details of the inner secret were known by only a few men, there were other layers of contact. The China experts in the State Department were asked to work out "hypothetical problems" that turned out to be not so hypothetical. And then key members of Congress were talked to in a general way about the same issues. Thus the Government "knew" without really knowing, and at the center the President moved along his chosen course with assistance but with no extraneous obstructions...
...years, Al and Tipper Gore have had more than their share of tense moments with the entertainment industry. The uneasy relationship started with Tipper's crusade in the 1980s against smutty and violent rock lyrics. It has continued through Al's vice presidency, during which he played a key role in negotiating a voluntary TV-ratings system, a law requiring that new televisions be equipped with a V chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum on school...
Muppets live in suitcases, and Muppet people live out of suitcases. Jim Henson gave up the key of his rented Mulholland Drive hacienda, with its obligatory indoor-outdoor clover-leaf-shaped pool, and flew to Manhattan. There he rallied the support troops at HA! headquarters and conferred with his increasingly large staff of business people...