Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general, professors at the school of government love to talk to the press, love to see the phrase "Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government" in print. Some say that when people at the Kennedy School are bored, they count the number of references to the school inserted into the Congressional Record. But if someone wants to write about the school's links to Dukakis, they try to downplay the whole thing...
...church, a low-slung building the size of a corner gas station, where there's an organ and a clunky, slightly out-of- tune piano. It's a Saturday. Several women are moving around in the kitchen; the small, bare chapel is deserted. Walter plays a quick phrase on the piano and sings the lyric faintly for Doug, and Doug (who does not read music) sends it booming back. Then again, with an altered stress...
...Zimbabwe," said Bush in his convention acceptance speech. Keynoter Thomas Kean, the New Jersey Governor formerly admired for his decency and moderation, accused the Democrats of "pastel patriotism," neatly combining the suggestion of insufficient national ardor with the sexual innuendo of Jeane Kirkpatrick's famous "San Francisco Democrats" phrase...
...Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, has, in Variety's cheery phrase, "slashed its way into b.o. history." The picture, made for a puny $6 million, earned $12.8 million in its first three days -- better than Roger Rabbit, bigger than Big -- for the fourth best opening weekend of the year and the best ever tallied by an independently released film...
Throughout the 1980s, American critics have attacked the Reagan Doctrine as too grandiose and expensive an undertaking for the U.S. They saw it as a form of imperial overstretch, to use the now famous phrase of Professor Paul Kennedy. This critique is unintelligible. The effects of the Reagan Doctrine have been precisely the reverse. It turned out to be an extremely cost- effective form of Western resistance to the Soviet expansion of the '70s. It made the new Soviet outposts expensive liabilities. The Reagan Doctrine demonstrated -- to the Politburo, ultimately -- that it was the Soviet empire that had overreached...