Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...switch in reasoning seemed to reflect the Administration's recurring tendency to speak with different voices about Nicaragua. Privately, some Pentagon sources attributed the hyping of concern over the Bakuriani and its cargo to officials at the White House and National Security Council. The State Department also expressed frustration over the way the MiG issue had materialized: on his way to the OAS meeting, Shultz characterized the original leak as "a criminal act." For his part, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger coolly deplored the "hysteria" that had arisen over the incident, even as the Pentagon provided the varying rationales...
Tikhonov blandly assured Shultz that TASS was only quoting "outside sources" and that the allegations did not reflect the Kremlin's official view. A State Department aide characterized the exchange somewhat differently. Said the official: "There was a lot of shouting." Some Western diplomats in Moscow speculated that the Soviet charges were meant to deflect attention from Italian Judge Ilario Martella's report indicting three Bulgarians (and by implication the Soviet KGB) for conspiring to murder Pope John Paul...
...Never mind the Parthenon frieze, the Marcus Aurelius, the equestrian portraits of Verrocchio or Donatello, or any of the rest of the vast repertory of equine imagery in Western art: horse painting, like "sporting" art generally, tends to be seen as a minor style of aesthetic tailoring, shaped to reflect the blunt amusements of a class not much liked by connoisseurs. Painters like Sir Alfred Munnings, who filled canvas after canvas with accurate replications of poised fetlocks and lobb boots, are despised by art critics; and even in the 18th century, the age of the horse par excellence, Stubbs...
...self-contradictory tone may have sounded to some viewers like hypocrisy, but it seemed to reflect instead a deep ethical confusion. Network executives contended off-camera that journalistic integrity required them to report promptly whatever they knew about election trends. "If we have the information, we should put it on the air," said Lane Venardos, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. Yet exit polls, perhaps as much as debates and campaign commercials, have thrust TV into the political process. NBC'S early call in 1980 was said to have discouraged voting and thus affected the outcome of close...
...time to get off the treadmill for a while and reflect," said Osborne. Besides being a refuge from the survival-of-the-fittest business world and an educational experience. Osborne says the AMP was "extremely broadening" because he got to meet people from all over the world "Something will pass as the mail once or twice a week from people I met at Harvard," says Osborne...