Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, this turnaround is ominous to conservatives, who fear that Reagan has become senile in his old age and is no match for the skillful Gorbachev. The new reforms, they argue, mask Gorbachev's plan to revive the stagnant Soviet economy and rival our technological capability. What they fail to realize is that a paranoid Soviet Union presents a greater threat to world peace than one that openly recognizes its past atrocities and encourages the expression of different views. An economically weak military superpower would be more likely to play off its area of strength; so America should welcome relations...
...wind to the color of towels in the powder rooms. It should be a meeting to remember. How will Nancy's homework compare with Raisa's recent English lessons? Will Raisa's hair, which was formerly hennaed in the salon of Moscow's exclusive International Hotel, match the brilliance of Nancy's, which is touched up with Clairol's Moongold and Chestnut? Will the Soviet First Lady return to the gold-lame sandals she wore in London in 1984? Will the American First Lady shock the world by wearing red, her favorite color, in Red Square...
...Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), Mick's perpetually adoring girlfriend. Then an unlikely band of citizens has to be recruited to help him rescue her. Then the criminals must be lured all the way to Australia so that Mick can prove what we already know: that their street smarts are no match for his outback smarts. Then, then, then. It's a little like listening to a child improvise a tall tale; the innocent charm quickly wears thin...
CAPTION: HOW THE RIVALS MATCH...
...that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...