Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came home and informed my mother that it was a matter of life and death that I went to the mall and found the perfect Valentine's gift. I didn't tell Mom why I needed the present, and she graciously pretended not to know...
...there was something special about that Valentine's Day. It didn't matter that she never knew who gave her the present, or that I never told her how I felt, or that it only cost $3. I was "in love," and I had given Wendy a gift that meant something more than a Mastercard number and a 1-800 phone call...
...script. On last week's tour Quayle persuaded at least a few observers that he might be up to the task. As his official plane flew back to Washington, the handful of journalists aboard helped the Vice President celebrate his 42nd birthday by giving him a cake and a present -- a Venezuelan bank note inscribed with: FIRST FOREIGN TRIP: QUAYLE FAILS TO SCREW...
...goes well, the year's most spectacular photo opportunity will present itself in May, when Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing. But this will be much more than a photo-op. Such a summit would formally end an important advantage enjoyed by the U.S. since Richard Nixon visited China in 1972: Washington could talk to the leadership in both Beijing and Moscow, but ; there was no high-level dialogue between the Soviets and the Chinese and virtually no significant contact at lower levels...
...intends to present each year a limited season of varied and offbeat repertory, using its midsize (2,000 seats) theater as well as the more intimate (900 seats) Majestic a few blocks away. BAM officials like to boast that their house has actually been staging opera since 1861, more than two decades before the mighty Metropolitan Opera was born. But in fact the whole place nearly died during the 1950s. Its revival in recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams...