Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is at its best in the first hour, when it explores the ways Charles and Audrey fulfill each other's fantasies. She is his risk-taking, defiant lover. He is her loving, stable husband. The relationship is odd but sweet and interesting. Whether or not it will last is the next logical question, and one that interests the audience...
...This crisis goes right to the core ofchallenging Reagan's linkage to the public. Lossof public opinion may have the added impact ofweakening President Reagan's relationship withCongress," Peterson explained...
...book "will be an account of a scared mother and a scared kid who went through this separately and came out on the other side," says Burnett, 53. Hamilton, 22, who is a cast member of the TV series Fame, adds impishly, "It's going to be about our relationship, about mother and daughter, about adolescence and menopause." At which news, Mom yelps as her daughter laughs happily...
Senator Durenberger has two pieces of advice: "It is terribly important that the President begin anew his policy with regard to the Middle East and Iran. It is also very important that this particular President begin anew his relationship with the Congress." Robert Dole, the Republican leader, suggests that Reagan should simply concede he made a mistake. Those suggestions, however, assume that Reagan is ready to admit that the arms sales to Iran were a blunder. And the President so far is one of the few people left in Washington who will not concede any such thing...
...idea of mask and game playing is very important here. We're talking about an almost Oriental kind of concept of face and honor," says John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, a 1985 book about his relationship with his brother Robbie, who is serving a life sentence for murder. Says Wideman of life on the street: "There is an invisible value system in which people are quite literally willing to go to war because somebody looks at them cross-eyed. When you have that kind of tension, when you have those rules that are worth life and death...