Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draft by Commission Member James Woolsey, who was Navy Under Secretary during the Carter Administration, vividly depicted Pentagon shortcomings. One passage, for instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop it. But at the insistence of Reagan loyalists on the commission, the language was "dulled up" to sound more like a typical presidential commission's findings. Meanwhile, Reagan's speechwriters pre-emptively embraced the commission's findings with some hedged language. "Wherever the commission's recommendations...
...Years Later, which is scheduled for release this spring. "Give me some time, I'll call you in six months," Anouk Aimee told Jean-Louis Trintignant at the close of the first film. Somehow she didn't, and neither did he. But when they finally meet again, the old magic is there (not to mention the old music style, with Francis Lai again composing). Aimee's Anne has gone from being a script girl to a successful movie producer, and Trintignant's Jean-Louis from a racing-car driver to a designer of race courses. "Jean-Louis is superb," says...
...classroom. It gave off more fumes than heat, but it made the students feel better. You cannot take notes in gloves. It got so bad that I had to write tests on the board. We had no Xerox paper. We made our own maps. We still do, with Magic Markers and butcher paper. Maps are expensive. And history professors are pretty good geographers...
Toad processed words like a demon. His fingers flew across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
...State of the Union report, however, Reagan displayed the buoyant optimism that is at the heart of his personal appeal, touting the magic of the free market and the strength of the American people for a revitalization of the nation's economy. "If ever there was an Uncle Sam, it's him," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as he watched a replay of the speech. Although he has embodied Uncle Sam for five years now, Reagan still does so by chastising the Government he heads. "A lumbering giant," he called it, "slamming shut the gates of opportunity." His national...