Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning even gold medals to the millions reaped by a Carl Lewis or a Mary Lou Retton. "I have no contract and cannot advertise my services for hire," notes Soviet Backstroker Sergei Zabolotnov, who earns $583 a month as a swimming- coach-in-training. The Soviets, too, mutter darkly about drugs, and with reason: some U.S. athletic officials suspect that abuse of steroids and their kin is indeed more widespread in the U.S. Says Dr. Robert Voy, chief medical officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee: "If I had to guess, I'd say we do a little worse...
...Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken her on dates to a paramilitary campground, a bank robbery and a political assassination. (Guess it beats dinner and a movie.) As Gary's angel-face seven-year-old daughter tells Cathy, "One day we're gonna kill all the dirty niggers and Jews...
Even more frustrating to Jackson is the possibility that the nomination might go to an also-ran who finished well behind him in the balloting: "I have more white votes than ((Richard)) Gephardt got before he dropped out." And aides mutter that the choice of Al Gore would set Jackson seething...
Congressmen often mutter that the best way to remove the temptation to make money on the side is to raise their salaries. Perhaps, but their pay has been raised in the past with no noticeable improvement in ethics. Serving in Congress is a choice freely made, an honor partly its own reward. What has not been tried is sound rules with stiff penalties, but that is because Congress sets its own standards...
...walk around the Arbat, a quaint Moscow shopping mall, the friendly but thrusting crowds alarmed the KGB. Guards appeared out of nowhere to form a flying wedge around the Reagans and roughed up everyone from journalists to children. "It's still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission to emigrate. He desisted after a Soviet official warned an American counterpart that such a visit would doom forever any chance that the Ziemans would...