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...Treatment. This strategy -- painting a female foe as simply too sweet for the job -- is being tested by WMCs in several states. In Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Hank Brown dismissed Democrat Josie Heath's written demand that he put in escrow $605,000 raised for his campaign at a luncheon chaired by a Denver developer with the comment, "It's a cute letter, but without substance." Heath snapped back that Brown's remarks were "incredibly patronizing. Modern men and women in this country today are well past using language like 'cute' with a woman's serious request on a matter...
...that retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft has the position now. When the picture of the Iran-contra beast is finally drawn, in all probability it will not be as large or menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members, there is the acknowledgment that the one man who really put the grand plot together has left the scene. That is Bill Casey, the CIA director who died in May 1987 from pneumonia after surgery for a brain tumor...
During the Reagan years, it seemed as if the American and Soviet First Ladies had decided to continue the superpower rivalry by other means. Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan's every tea, luncheon and photo op was another skirmish in their mutual assured destruction pact, a frost-filled sideshow of haute-to- haute combat. Reagan complained that Gorbachev lectured her mercilessly on Marx and missiles, compared the White House to a museum, and was given to an imperious snapping of her fingers to summon the KGB to fetch a chair for her. After one White House dinner where Raisa used...
...Four days before graduation, Clive left a message for me with the Lowell House superintendent--Clive was wholly oblivious, I am convinced, to the student directory and the University operator. I returned his call, only to find that during the intervening two weeks he had made my casual luncheon remark his preoccupation. He had written letters and made transatlantic phone calls to friends and old colleagues. He was, I'm afraid, more concerned about my situation than...
...attended this luncheon as a first-year student with Sophomore standing, having chosen during Orientation Week to major in physics. Most of the other new concentrators were also first-year students with advanced standing--a bright crowd. After eating lunch interspersed among faculty members, the students were asked to comment on their experience so far in the department...