Word: lamb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Triffids. This is American everydaydom, the casual course of events. Alarmed, the mind skates hurriedly to the ifs: If Tylenol, why not aspirin? If drugs, why not food? October is the month for Halloween, after all. The razor blade in the apple? The lamb chops, the soap, the Pepsis? We already had an eyedrop scare. Hasn't the water tasted funny lately...
Steinbrenner has a wonderfully representative American quality. In a way, he is that old American story, energetic money let loose in the world, shooting its cuffs, buying everything off, singing "I did it my way." It is the sort of money that purchases the restaurant to make sure that lamb chops stay on the menu, or to settle a grudge with the maitre d'. Steinbrenner's emotional, almost physical inability to leave the Yankees alone produces great psychodrama...
...country that has been teaching its children for more than a century that the Malvinas, as the islands are known in Latin America, are Argentine. Says José Dumas, a business consultant: "It was the junta as a whole that made the decisions. Galtieri is the sacrificial lamb...
...Beirut-based correspondents were grim, however: stick together, do not go out at night, and never photograph Syrian troops, who detained several photographers and reportedly pistol-whipped two. By contrast, the propaganda-wise Palestinians were eager to please, providing military guides to protect reporters. Los Angeles Times Correspondent David Lamb summed up the journalists' dilemma with a comparison to Viet Nam, which he had also covered: "There it was clear who the enemy was. But here you can't tell who your friends...
...were, however, that the leaders paid as much attention to the food (salad of seafood with asparagus; truffled grenadines of veal) as to diplomacy. Said Reagan: "We did not get into heavy discussions." That night Reagan played host to Mitterrand at a lavish dinner (sea bass flambe, saddle of lamb) at the American embassy. Toasting his guest, Reagan remarked that 60,000 Americans lie buried in France, where they fought in the two world wars. Mitterrand recalled that French soldiers fought beside Americans in the U.S. Revolutionary...