Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machismo-minded hard core, Ronald Reagan's occasionally bellicose campaign utterances are simply long overdue flexings of America's muscle. But last week a remark that he would be willing to send U.S. troops to Rhodesia exploded like a tripped-over land mine. By week's end the candidate was in full retreat...
...until seven years later, in 1932, that the poet tried to get in contact with Mussolini. He finally saw II Duce in 1933 in a private interview. It is a measure of Pound's tremendous ego and equally enormous naivete that he interpreted Mussolini's remark about A Draft of XXX Cantos("divertente"--entertaining) as signifying that the dictator was a genius...because he recognized genius...
...over busing revived, Ford astonishingly told Kentucky newsmen that the Justice Department had not decided where to intervene, that it might even be in Louisville, where an appeal is pending. When a Levi aide denied that Louisville had ever been under active consideration, the President's remark seemed to suggest that he was using the issue to gain political advantage in a crucial primary. Moreover, the Justice Department, trying to live down its Watergate-acquired reputation as a political extension of the White House, once again gave the impression of dancing to a presidential tune...
...Tour. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who is scheduled to begin a six-day U.S. tour next week, surely did not care to be reminded of the growing strength of the French left, and Schmidt's remark about "old forms and old attitudes" could hardly have pleased him. When he took over the Elysee Palace almost exactly two years ago, Giscard hoped to bring about in his seven-year term a smooth transition from the encrusted look that French politics had assumed after 16 years of Gaullist domination...
...novelist, Howar seems to have learned a lot from old movies and talk shows. Her basic technique is the flashback and her keenest instinct is for the spiky remark. "You political types are permitted to get caught with your hand in anything except another man's," Lilly tells two Government officials whose groping she has mischievously joined under the dinner table. Such dialogue befits TV Critic Lilly Shawcross, who is described as falling somewhere between Pauline Kael and Rex Reed. As a fictional character she inhabits a latitude equally indeterminate and unlikely - between Becky Sharp and Mary Tyler Moore...