Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change this man is getting the credit he is due. It is pleasant to find someone who can be entertaining during these Reaganomic times. Richard Pryor speaks the truth onstage and is amusing...
...many Americans an Easter holiday in the Caribbean is a pleasant way to forget the cares of the world for a few days. Their President is not so lucky. The reasons go well beyond the fact that Ronald Reagan, for image-building purposes, felt obliged to turn his five-day jaunt to Jamaica and Barbados last week into a "working vacation" that featured meetings with leaders of some of the area's island states as well as a bit of swimming in the turquoise waters. Whether in unseasonably cold Washington or under the blazing Caribbean sun, Reagan could...
...statement from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow was brief and to the point: "Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is currently on his routine winter vacation." Never mind that the cold, crisp days of the Russian winter had passed and that the capricious spring weather and thawing snow hardly made for a pleasant vacation. For Kremlin watchers around the world, the announcement provided the first official acknowledgment that the Soviet leader had indeed dropped out of sight. But if it was intended to allay suspicions about his whereabouts, it only increased the questions concerning Brezhnev's disappearance from public view three weeks...
...done in four novels and an earlier collection of stories, Author Alice Adams, 55, continues to specialize in heroines who cannot be hyphenated. Most of the ones in To See You Again live in San Francisco (as does Adams), but they are there because of job opportunities and pleasant surroundings, not drugs, macrobiotics or hot tubs. Surrounded by hedonistic enticements, they still experience the tugs of conscience. They are at an awkward age, stranded somewhere between hip and square, liberated enough to take younger lovers and conventional enough to worry about the consequences...
...setting of Bronx Primitive seems strange turf for the Yankee Clipper of the travel book (New York, Places and Pleasures; England's Green and Pleasant Land). In fact, she is at home in every sense. Kate is not short for Katherine but an alteration of Kaila, the name her Polish-Jewish parents gave her when she was born in Warsaw nearly 70 years ago. Simon took her first trip at age four, in steerage, aboard the Susquehanna, bound for New York City. There she grew up in neighborhoods where English had many accents...