Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics "totally wiped the memory of the Democratic Convention away." Political professionals regard summer surveys as rough sketches of attitudes, however, believing that voters do not focus on the campaign until after Labor Day. Reagan's analysts say they expect the President's lead to shrink, but even the rare White House pessimists count on staying ahead by at least four points...
...risks, serving as the counterpart to Ferraro offers Bush a rare chance in the spotlight. The Vice President's tacit reward for eight years of loyal service could be a leg up toward the Oval Office; the opportunity he faces this fall is to prove himself as a campaigner. "He hasn't been the most visible Vice President," notes one observer. "It's the first time he has been showcased since 1980." As a diligent centurion in the Reagan legion, Bush has been careful so far to avoid establishing an independent identity. Both to counter the Ferraro...
...question when someone asked him whether the American could be beaten. "No," he said, and then added, no doubt with some Asian equivalent of crossed fingers, "not at this moment." Louganis, 24, says revealingly that he does not think of diving as a competition-unless he makes a rare blunder, he has no competition-but as a difficult performance, to be done in order to give the greatest pleasure possible. He prefers outdoor meets, like the one last week at the Olympics, "because of the blue sky." Of course: the sky is a splendid stage setting...
...elite ($1.4 million last year), his values remain middle class. He buys his dark gray suits from Sears and loves to fling open his jacket to flash the label. In fact, the only part of his wardrobe not from Sears is shoes. Reason: his 13 A size is too rare for his stores to keep in stock. Telling's only ostentation is that he often rides to work from his home in Northbrook, Ill., in a company limousine or sometimes drives himself in a sleek black Jaguar. He defensively points out that the Jag belongs to his wife Nancy...
...Knickerbocker and Colony clubs, send their sons to schools such as Groton and Yale (the author's alma maters), and consider the Rockefellers, who came into their billions less than a century ago, slightly parvenu. This time around, Auchincloss is concerned with the female of that rare and resplendent species: twelve women who met once a month, from 1908 to 1972, to enrich themselves still further by discussing a book. The narrator, Christopher Gates, is the decorator son of one of the dozen in the Book Class. He believes that they and their peers had a remarkable and unrecorded...