Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people, aside from his family, had heard anything from or of Mandela during the first two decades of his imprisonment. Then, beginning ten months ago, the authorities relaxed visiting and other restrictions against him, permitted an interview by a British politician and allowed the conversation to be published in the South African press. "The armed struggle (with the authorities) was forced on us by the government," Mandela said in the % interview. "If they want to give it up, the ball is in their court...
...days of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet Farley is the latest, the most inventive and complex, in this reliquary of triteness, this film of continuous banality. Lemmon copes admirably: at moments reminiscent of Ronald Reagan at his complacent best, he creates with terrifying familiarity a portrait of the sycophantic politician per excellence. He oozes charm, exudes insincerity, succeeding so well, in fact, that the only thing priestly about this bon vivant is the funny collar he wears. It appears as just that, and in no way a credible proof of his purported priestly status. Why not call a spade...
...nothing but problems. As the reluctant inheritor of a deteriorating resort hotel, Tillman quickly learns that he should have left most of his expectations back home in the States: "The terms of life in the islands were that nothing ever made sense, unless you were a mystic or a politician, or studied both with ambition." When Tillman's mother dies, of no visible cause, in her hotel room, petty annoyances assume the dimensions of conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free...
...conclusion that Oswald had acted on his own. There was widespread speculation among Soviet diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according to the Soviets, he was associated with the big-time capitalism of the oil industry, also known to be anti...
Statewide, the Republican party is still predicting a return from the graveyard of irrelevance, though President Reagan--who carried this state last November 6--is the only GOP politician who has shown any signs of life...