Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning television interview. During their final talk, on a flight to Washington last week, White took notes as Jackson "mused in obvious pain about what he considers unfair criticism from those who read his zeal to increase black political influence as a desire for personal gain. It was a rare introspective moment. After more than 20 hours of exclusive conversations, I felt that I had finally seen the core...
...lobster and steamers were tasty, and the ban on alcohol at Fort Williams Park was relaxed so the nation's Governors could enjoy beer and wine. Still, there was a bigger reason for the rare harmony that pervaded the National Governors Conference in Portland, Me., last week. Democrat and Republican alike, most of the state executives are being forced to raise state taxes and cut services, partly because Congress and the Reagan Administration refuse to do the same thing at the federal level, and that is not their preferred mode of governing...
...central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession to the principle of on-site inspection). After a well-photographed sojourn during which she took in a children's festival at a Young Pioneer camp (but was spared the paramilitary training), she got the message: "They're just . . . almost . . . just like us," she announced at her last Moscow...
Step right over here, madam, and take a look at this rare collection of 100 paintings. Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their...
...plight of NPR has captured public sympathy at a time when unemployment and business failures are words of the day, it is because the network has stood for something all too rare in the commercial media quality. That meant broadcasting the SALT talks in their entirety, or Cyrus Vance's Harvard Commencement address--not events a lot of people wanted to hear, but something a few listeners wanted to hear very badly, and would have been unable to had NPR not broadcast them. That's not the kind of programming decision that shoves a network into the black...