Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan did not build a structure; he cast a spell. There was no Reagan revolution, just a Reagan bedazzlement. The magic is going off almost as mysteriously as the spell was woven in the first place. There is no edifice of policies solid enough to tumble, piece by piece, its props being knocked out singly or in groups. The whole thing is not falling down; it was never weighty enough for that. It is simply evanescing...
Although the Crimson failed to succeed in that attempt--Harvard allowed Columbia to score 13 points too many in its 84-63 victory over the Lions--50 was the magic number of the weekend for the women cagers...
...melancholy moment in the Reagan Administration. The old magic is gone forever, lost not so much to a single shock, the Iran-contra affair, as to the thousand and one arrows that constantly assail leaders, causing them to falter as the wounds accumulate. The Reagan nerve ends, so exquisitely conditioned by the long years of struggling to get to the top, are dulled by the isolation and the sycophancies of ultimate power...
However, nicotine gum, which has been available in the United States for three years, is not without side effects, Hitchcock said. "It's not a magic pill," she said, adding that doctors often fail to provide necessary guidance when they prescribe the nicotine...
...their way. The cameramen begin to check the light, turning their lamps on and flashing them into the eyes of the children carefully cutting away at potatoes. The same little girl rubs her eyes and turns to one of the cameramen. "Turn that off please," she says, emphasizing the magic word. He laughs and leaves the light...