Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the few journalists who had been witness to the vagaries of Haile Selassie's reign was Ryszard Kapuściński, 52. A widely traveled former correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuściński was evidently impressed by the family resemblance shared by absolute rulers, whether they reign in Addis Ababa, Moscow or Warsaw. In fact, the real subject of his ambiguous, compelling memoir is not Haile Selassie's primitive autocracy. It is modern totalitarianism reduced to its primordial elements...
...presidential race But from 1979 through 1982. It was ruled by Gov. Edward J King, who opposed abortion, supported the death penalty, condemned "welfare cheats," trumpeted the values of tax cuts and supply-side economics, and was embraced by President Reagan as his "favorite Democratic governor." King's reign came to an end after he barely lost the Democratic primary to the more liberal Michael S. Dukakis--who g sweet revenge for the 1978 Democratic primary when King unseated him. The explanation for the apparent inconsistencies lies in the realization that local conflicts--especially in this 350-year-old municipality...
...Mexico Governor Toney Anaya and Mayors Maurice Ferré of Miami, Henry Cisneros of San Antonio and Louis Montaño of Santa Fe. When Peña, a political unknown and son of a Texas cotton trader, is sworn in this week, it will end the 14-year reign of William McNichols Jr., 73. Tainted by ineptitude and scandals involving his appointees, Mayor Bill, as he was known, finished a poor third in a field of seven in a May bipartisan election...
...Margaret Thatcher did not exist, the British avant-garde might well have invented her. The Conservative landslide that extended her lease on 10 Downing Street has also renewed her reign as the favorite gargoyle of the London theater's left wing. In the suburban pubs and fringe theaters that form London's equivalent of off-Broadway, playwrights have been declaiming for months against Thatcherism and for the nuclear freeze. Two provocative British plays that recently made it to Manhattan, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Steven Berkoff s Greek, include oblique denunciations of the Tory leader...
...White's reign has been constructive and controversial. He was first elected on a liberal reformers platform, and with the enthusiasm and energy of the city behind him, he championed the renaissance of the downtown area. But the mid-70's marked the dissolution of such united optimism, as racial strife tore at the city, while schooling and housing disintegrated. White the progressive became White the boss, as a close scare in the 1975 election induced him to convert his little City Halls into a machine. His image has been further tarnished by the corruption convictions of several key sides...