Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported Japanese proposal that the U.S. demilitarize Pearl Harbor: "This country is. . .ready to pull the trigger if the Japs do anything . . . That's the first time that any damn Jap has told us to get out of Hawaii...
...government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...
Crimes of the Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...
...squandered his lead as an 18-year-old, he had been stamped as bad luck, and most young "rabbits," as they were called, avoided him. He had come close a few times after that initial effort but had choked in the clutch. He hated them in every detail, from pearl-white smiles, to their clone-like personalities. "Thank y'all. 'Preciate it," they would invariably say when congratulated for a good shot. "Well, I jus' try to play one hole at a time," they would slowly explain to sportswriters. No character. They composed a lumpy, mushy group of golfers, with...
Negotiations can be merely a smokescreen, of course: like the bargaining that the Japanese were conducting with the U.S. before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes negotiations are only empty dances of punctilio: at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it took the delegates six months to decide in what order they would enter and be seated in the negotiating chamber; the U.S. and North Viet Nam held similarly intricate discussions about the shape of the table in Paris. Negotiations can produce their own tragedies, as Versailles did, as Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their...