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Romanov has the unflattering reputation of being abrasive and arrogant. Sovi ets quip that the imperial manner comes with his surname, the same as that of the Russian royal family, which was deposed in 1917. According to a widely told anecdote, Romanov ordered Leningrad's Hermitage museum to open its china clos ets so that guests at his daughter's wedding reception could eat in grand style. Several priceless items from Catherine the Great's dinner service were broken during the revelry. One U.S. diplomat who met with Romanov was taken aback when he rudely interrupted his interpreter to correct...
Feldstein replied with a quip: "I suppose it was just a throwaway line." More seriously, he professed to find the Treasury Secretary's attack "quite amazing. I can't understand it." In fact, the two have long been at odds, though their differences have usually been expressed by a backstage elbow in the ribs rather than a public fist in the eye. Feldstein takes a far gloomier view of huge federal deficits than Regan does, and last week he annoyed the White House by saying as much in discussing forthcoming budget talks with Democrats. Said Feldstein, putting...
Reagan is the Great Communicator, a genial performer before audiences of one sort or another since college days, master of the one-line quip, a man who entered politics in early middle age after winning fame in that all-American institution Hollywood. He rose to the presidency largely because he was able to articulate a personal ideological view on television more forcefully than anyone else. Andropov is the consummate Communist Party operative, a nearly faceless toiler in the political establishment of the U.S.S.R. all his adult life, head for 15 years of that quintessentially Soviet organization...
...European allies, who had initially been highly critical of the American resort to military force, began softening their rhetoric as the success of the intervention seemed clearer. The U.N. General Assembly voted 108 to 9 to denounce the U.S. move, but Reagan airily dismissed its action with the quip: "It did not upset my breakfast any." (The White House press office promptly produced Reagan's breakfast menu: one poached egg, fruit, toast, coffee...
...suppose I should employ the old mother-in-law joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...