Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of that is the legacy of the Reagan presidency, Reese says. Reagan "ran as a head of state, not a head of government and people liked that, and Bush is doing the same things. Which was why you had the Teflon presidency--you don't piss on the Queen, as people...
Although subtle, the Republican message is clear: Democrats are too sympathetic to Blacks. Reagan's racial symbol was the "welfare queen." For Bush and his operatives, it's Willy Horton and Jesse Jackson...
Shawcross briskly recounts the Shah's decline and fall, from the first wobbles of the Peacock Throne to the restrained dash to the airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy...
...Mexico provided temporary havens, but as the Pahlavis were forced to move on, they increasingly found themselves in a dog-eat-Shah world. Ten cramped weeks in the Bahamas cost them an extortionate $1.2 million. Panama's late Omar Torrijos extended his hospitality and then made passes at the Queen...
...Thailand daily. It often seems, in fact, as if ancient gods -- Bacchus, Neptune, Zeus and Venus -- conspired to make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction in terms. The most pressing problem with the "Land of Smiles...