Word: master
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this," sophomore George Polsky said. "We didn't come home from Princeton with enough Tiger pelt, so we'll have to settle for some Bulldog hide. It's going to be a dogfight out there, and I'd like to look at it as if it were the master teaching his dog. And of course, we all know who's going to be learning the tricks. In a nutshell, we're so psyched. We're foaming at the mouth...
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This excellent show rescues the Spanish master from the Romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
...then did the Bush team pull off such a miraculous deficit disappearing act? Budget Director Richard Darman came up with a solution so Machiavellian that it had eluded even that past master of cooked books, David Stockman. The Darman doctrine: If the numbers are inconvenient, let someone else add them up. It was a refined version of the same strategy that Bush himself promoted during his campaign with his numbers-fudging talk of a "flexible freeze...
...question of what kind of conveniences residents need. Macaroni and cheese, no more. Now you can head over to Barsamian's to pick up a pound of Scottish smoked salmon for $26.50 or some rabbit pate for $9.58. Next stop: Videosmith, where local residents can drop off their Master-cards and rent the latest French film ($2.75 a day plus tax) to watch on their video cassette recorders...
...insular young politician whose horizons until recently did not reach much beyond Indiana. During the campaign, Quayle bragged about the foreign leaders he knew, but those were chiefly from the NATO allies and Israel. In the rest of the world, he has many people to meet and much to master before he can be trusted to venture beyond a carefully prepared script. On last week's tour Quayle persuaded at least a few observers that he might be up to the task. As his official plane flew back to Washington, the handful of journalists aboard helped the Vice President celebrate...