Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raisa's campaign appearances revealed a convergence of the Gorbachev style: each talking but rarely listening, each lecturing and posturing, while gushing charm. "This is the first person I've ever met who talks more than I do," marveled Barbara Mikulski after her encounter with Raisa. So what's new in politics...
...chance, the Armenian gathering gave Raisa an opportunity to show off her unflappability. Informed of the unauthorized presence of a TIME correspondent, Raisa purred, "There is nothing to be concerned about. The American and Soviet press should work together to build peace." She put her arm around the correspondent and smiled as her personal photographer took their picture...
Mikhail Gorbachev sat on Nancy Reagan's right. On her left was Richard Perle, former Pentagon hard-liner and Soviet nemesis. The President was flanked by Raisa Gorbachev and Jeane Kirkpatrick. And the State Dining Room was filled with the unlikeliest 125 people one could imagine supping together: Henry Kissinger and Meadowlark Lemon, great Globetrotters both; Claudette Colbert and Moscow's supreme propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev; Ted Graber, Nancy's interior designer, and Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's noted American expert; Joe DiMaggio and Pearl Bailey; David Rockefeller, Mary Lou Retton and Saul Bellow...
...Washington's Andrews Air Force Base to his rainy Thursday night departure, the General Secretary seemed to be leading a full-court media blitz. He unfailingly turned on the charm in his public appearances, such as Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House, where he and Wife Raisa joined Pianist Van Cliburn in singing Moscow Nights. Later in the week he stopped his motorcade on Connecticut Avenue to hop out and press the flesh with passersby. Gushed one thrilled bystander: "It was like the coming of the second Messiah or something." Now that's public relations...
Although it produced no new arms- control breakthroughs, Mikhail Gorbachev' s dazzling visit to Washington seemed to herald a new and more personable phase in the 40- year struggle between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. -- Vivacious and voluble, Raisa Gorbachev upstages Nancy Reagan. -- San Francisco' s newly elected mayor, Art Agnos, faces daunting problems...