Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forbidden to leave the area by the French government, which has also frozen $124 million in cash and property pending litigation of a suit by the Haitian government. And since fleeing Haiti last February, they have been shunned by locals, attacked by the international press and, even worse, become plain bored. "In truth, I do find my days a bit empty," says the former First Lady in an interview in the December Vanity Fair. Her time is filled with TV and crossword puzzles. She is "unable to concentrate on novels" but does give her husband ("mon tonton") a manicure every...
Boxed in, Reagan made the flat statement Shultz had wanted and accompanied it with a kind of come-home-all-is-forgiven message. The President denied that Shultz had ever discussed resigning with him. In fact, said Reagan, "he has made it plain that he will stay as long as I want him -- and I want him." Most probably Shultz never did make an explicit threat to resign -- but then he did not have to. The President could ill afford to have it said that his Iranian policy had driven his highly respected Secretary of State out of the Administration...
...three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered to him by Alfred Stieglitz, words that Weston later summarized as a "maximum of detail with a maximum of simplification...
Ginsberg, it seems, has reached the logical--and just plain gross--culmination of that legacy with the publication of his latest collection of poems, White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985. The book has attracted attention as Ginsberg's "dirtiest" collection, and it is a well-deserved reputation...
...first news conference in nearly three months, Reagan said Secretary of State George Shultz will stay in his Cabinet post, despite his scarcely disguised opposition to the arms sale. "He has made it plain he would stay as long as I want him, and I want him," the president said...