Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera panned slowly across a library of leatherbound books and a polished table to a pair of pale, manicured hands and finally to the angular, rigidly expressive face framed in a white collar and blue suit. French President François Mitterrand was on the air, live from his study in the Elysée Palace. In an hour-long Gallic version of a televised fireside chat, Mitterrand delivered the first comprehensive defense of his leftist domestic policies since he took office seven months ago. "Those who chose us want things to change," said he. "There must be some reforms...
...names still strike a nostalgic chord in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts: the MG and Triumph sports cars, the four-wheel drive Land Rover and the sleek Jaguar. But these days BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), Britain's one remaining large-scale auto producer, is only a pale shadow of its former self. MG production ceased a year ago, and the last Triumph was built in October. And now, the very existence of BL is in doubt...
...woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into this pale, clean little engine, its camera gliding from baby-sitter to baby-sister while director John Carpenter applied the organ music like an expert masseur...
...these other problems pale by comparison to the damage done by Stockman's revelations. By saying that "supply siders have gone too far...they created this nonpolitical view of the economy, where you are going to have big changes and abrupt turns, and their happy vision of this world of growth and no inflation and no pain." Stockman agreed with those critics who have contended all along that Reagan's program for huge defense outlays coupled with tax cuts and social service reductions is a prescription for budget deficits and inequity. Stockman has thus punched a gaping hole...
...wanted him to make and he wrote it out directly." For an hour, Stockman rehearsed the toughest questions his aides could throw at him about the whole affair. Then he went off to face an overcrowded room full of reporters in the refurbished White House press quarters. He looked pale and frightened at first, his attempt at a wan smile quickly fading. Twice he paused in his prepared apology, gulping to regain control of his emotions...