Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the task of extracting information from a worried and increasingly besieged Administration fell to White House Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith. Seaman found that conducting interviews in the supercharged atmosphere pervading Washington required special vigilance. Says he: "You have to listen carefully to how sources phrase statements, look for body language and be sensitive to signals." TIME's correspondents also spent time on the phone conducting two exclusive interviews, one with President Reagan at the White House by Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey and the other with Vice President George Bush at his Kennebunkport, Me., vacation home...
...phrase "Reagan is not a detail man" is a mantra among Reaganites and suggests that he sees the big picture, that "details" are for smaller minds. Yet such detachment can prove dangerous. In preparation for the Iceland summit, Reagan did not study the history and nuances of America's arms-control strategies; instead he practiced ways to sell Gorbachev on SDI. To get himself into the right frame of mind, he read Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, a potboiler about a non-nuclear war between NATO and the Soviet bloc. On a political trip the day before he left...
...vividly transforming heroes," replies, "I am like somebody who is trying vividly to transform himself out of himself and into his vividly transforming heroes. I am very much like somebody who spends all day writing." Occasionally the interviewer gets the last word. When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation" to Gertrude Stein's disgruntled auto mechanic, he is asked, "Is it possible the garageman was referring to 'a lost generator...
Perhaps Mr. Rosenthal has overlooked the fact that many non-humanities concentrators are mystified by the ubiquitous terms with which he may be more familiar. A friend recently informed me that money laundering is the act of using stolen or swindled money for corrupt purposes. The phrase comes from the olden days when crooks sometimes obtained new bills whose serial numbers were not known, and actually washed them in a washing mashine filled with coffee. This sullied the money so that the thieves could use it for their own purposes without fear of the bills' being traced...
Editor's Note: The phrase Pyhrric victory was not inspired by the Peloponnesian War but by the disastrous strategies of the Greek king Pyhrrus in his war against the Romans in the Italian region of Magna Graecia...