Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-thought-out (or at least well-rationalized) principle was operative too. Tynan reserved his deepest regard for what he called "high- definition performers," the elite who communicate the essence of their talents "with economy, grace, no apparent effort and absolute hard-edged clarity of outline." That description perfectly fits his reviews. He was, in them, a man doing turns on a high wire, the light refracting off his sequined prose, half blinding readers already dazed by his fearlessly leaping judgments...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev are affable television performers who regard themselves as instigators of something approaching a revolution in their nations' domestic policies. Otherwise, they are separated in age, personality and political fortune by a gulf about as wide as the philosophical chasm between the two superpowers. The 76-year-old U.S. President prepares to play host to their third summit meeting next week in Washington, smarting from a long string of setbacks that have raised grave questions about his ability to exercise leadership during the final 14 months of his term. The 56-year-old Soviet General Secretary...
...Reykjavik the President has suffered one disaster after another: loss of the Senate to the Democrats; the Iran-contra debacle; increasingly bold and successful congressional opposition on everything from taxes to funding of SDI and the Nicaraguan rebels. But as the end of his presidency approaches, Reagan seems to regard the INF treaty as his legacy to history and a vindication of his whole approach to foreign policy. Says an aide: "This treaty shows the wisdom of Reagan's tough way of dealing with the Soviets...
...Emperor's day, Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris) would surely not have obtained a passport to visit the Forbidden City, let alone explore its ruler's forbidden soul. Last year, though, the director received free range of both from Pu Yi's successors, who regard his final, harmless-dodderer incarnation as an exemplary triumph for their system. The result is a film epic in length (almost three hours), vision (the reimagining of a lost and exotic world) and imagery (formal and glowing). Yet at its center is an anti-epic figure, inarticulate and victimized. The movie must...
...imagine the rhetoric: "My fellow Americans, we have been through some unsettling moments recently. While the country is sound and the foundations of economic prosperity and stability are solid, we have some pressing problems that must be addressed with new energy and resolve and without partisan acrimony and without regard for personal political + advantage." Instead, Reagan has shouted fragmented and unwise slogans. Advises New York City Financier Felix Rohatyn: "He must not try to run after the markets; he must get ahead of them with credible, long-range plans...