Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chairman Yasser Arafat was all smiles and cordiality during the group's visit to his underground shelter in besieged West Beirut. Ambiguously suggesting a willingness to come to terms with Israel, the canny guerrilla leader pulled out a black felt-tipped pen and, on a page of lined notepaper, wrote the words: "Chairman Arafat accepts...
...jackets off, and even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a light summer dress, has a few beads of perspiration along her impeccable upper lip. The debate on economic and monetary affairs, supposedly the height of the summit, drones on. President Reagan starts amusing himself by doodling neat little pen portraits of imaginary figures-a nondescript man with a mustache, something that looks like a smiling Marlboro cowboy, and the head of a horse. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan passes a note to Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We should be out swimming in that fountain." Haig scribbles back: "Yes, without...
...time TV to urge Americans to tell Congress that "this is no time for politics as usual-that you too want an end to runaway taxes, spending, Government debt and high interest rates." Although he bogged down slightly while reeling off a slew of figures and his red marker pen failed him as he tried to make a point with a chart, the President smoothly presented his central argument. The Democrats, he said, "want more and more spending and more and more taxes," while "I believe we should have less spending, less taxes and more prosperity...
...neat, Northern California bedroom, a bespectacled 16-year-old who calls himself Marc communicates with several hundred unauthorized "tourists" on a computer magic carpet called ARPANET. This $3.3 million computer network maintained by the Defense Department provides a link between key contractors, but ARPANET has become a pen pal club, dating service and electronic magazine for youngsters and other computer hitchhikers gifted enough to join what is in effect a huge, electronic message service. In fact, TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz, working on a terminal near San Francisco, interviewed a teenage tourist in San Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc...
...GEORGE F. WILL, philosopher and ruminator, is also George F. Will, human being. And his conservatism spills over from the political world to the personal idiosyncracies he shares with millions of readers. The man who named his daughter Victoria (nickname "Tory") aims his pen with equal vitriol at the designed hitter rule, modern art, and new cars with gaudy interior design. The admiration he expressed for Lech Walesa is no more important than his celebration of the ringing of bells (church, not door or phone), the National Cathedral, the Chicago Cubs, and the semi-colon...