Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comments about Reagan's work habits and intelligence do not befit his own stature. It may be true that Reagan works little and vacations a lot, but he should leave that kind of criticism to Democratic back-benchers. The Speaker of the House does not have to resort to insults to get his job done...
Fidel Castro's prestige and adventurism in the Caribbean and Central America had sustained a setback. The U.S.'s European allies, who had initially been highly critical of the American resort to military force, began softening their rhetoric as the success of the intervention seemed clearer. The U.N. General Assembly voted 108 to 9 to denounce the U.S. move, but Reagan airily dismissed its action with the quip: "It did not upset my breakfast any." (The White House press office promptly produced Reagan's breakfast menu: one poached egg, fruit, toast, coffee...
...revolution. Marines ringed the house in which Coard and his wife Phyllis had taken refuge. Only when a U.S. officer began a loud countdown, threatening to open fire on the building, did the two emerge and were taken into custody. Austin was holed up in a palatial coastal resort that once was a haven for the island's leading capitalists. He fell for a ruse by Grenadian intelligence agents who pretended to accept his offered bribe of $2,000 to take him by boat to the neighboring island of Carriacou or $3,500 to get him to Marxistdominated Guyana...
...long way from the Caribbean, but the impact of the invasion of Grenada was still reverberating among U.S. allies. With various shades of reprobation, every major West European capital continued to express disapproval of Washington's resort to military might. Bat in an unspoken consensus, there appeared to be a determination to prevent differences over U.S. policy in the Caribbean from spilling into the Atlantic Alliance's crucial and most immediate challenge: persuading a dubious public, particularly in West Germany, to accept the new U.S.-controlled nuclear weapons on their soil. The invasion did not make that task...
...last, done less to court an audience's indulgence. But it is also hard to remember a more ferociously moral movie. Or one that relies so exclusively on sheer directorial technique, the assurance of its cuts and angles, its settings and costumes, to carry that moral without resort to fine words or grand, distancing posturings...