Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip were so fleeting. I sometimes thought I could learn as much by examining her profile on a British postage stamp." For White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, reporting the Queen's visit to President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo involved a harrowing trip by van along narrow mountain roads, fording storm-swollen streams, then marking time in rain, wind and fog. "At times like these," he muses, "one is tempted to long for the days when royalty, both hereditary and elected, were allowed more privacy. It's a subversive thought, but perhaps inescapable when your notebook...
...case, Reagan flew to an air base near Santa Barbara and by helicopter to the local airport, then made the tricky drive up the mountain. Next day he went back down Refugio Road in a caravan of four-wheel-drive vehicles (airlifted from Washington) to meet the Queen, who had taken a Navy bus to Long Beach airport and caught Air Force Two to Santa Barbara. Warned that the Queen's plane was late, the presidential motorcade stopped in its tracks for 19 minutes under a highway overpass. The President's advisers reckoned this was preferable to hanging...
...President changed into cowboy boots, denim jacket and Western string tie. The hours of tough (and maybe gratuitously risky) travel were all for the sake of a Tex-Mex feast: tacos, enchiladas, stuffed chilies, guacamole, refried beans. Just after the Queen and Philip took off back down the mountain, the fog lifted and the splendid views were suddenly unshrouded. "Damn it," the President said, "I told them it was going to clear." Like other Golden State boosters, Reagan was rankled that the royal visitors had not been able to see California as it is supposed to be: bright and languid...
...Morris, joked that he rather wished T.R. had used a telephone more. All at the table were concerned that nowadays Presidents phone Prime Ministers and Senators leaving no record of their conversations. Couldn't Reagan write short notes when he finished his calls? He'd create a mountain of paper, maybe, but 200 years from now his jottings would be invaluable. There followed a minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned that Hoover was the first President to have a phone in his office. No, countered Arthur Link editor of the Woodrow...
Rick James's "Super Freak" signals the end of dinner and the beginning of the sixth hour. Most dancers are now showing the effects of all the dance hours logged. Our feet hurt and our leg muscles beg for mercy, but like the climber who tackles the mountain "because it's there," we valiantly strive onward. Donna Summer's "Finger on the Trigger (Love is in Control)" propels us forward, though the minutes tick by more and more slowly...