Word: roars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personality, Ronald Reagan, to reduce the dominance of the Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar. Artificial as these tactics were, they helped him sustain the popularity essential to any ! effective presidency. But the trick has worn out, as do all long-running television acts. When Reagan tried to counter the Wall Street crash with one- liners shouted over the rotor blades, it was not Sam Donaldson...
...rolling in like vicious thunder and so are we, floating at speed across the Nevada wastes with a half forgotten sense of purpose burning in our empty stomachs like the remnants of the whisky we had for breakfast--"Pills, pills," one of the Ginsburgs is yelling through the roar of the wind, and he's got a fistful of them, twisting and dancing in the backseat of the Thunderbird convertible, tears of madness streaming down his cheeks and down onto his black pinstripe suit--the law professor, I think, the other Ginsburg--or is it Ginsberg?--Ginsbirg?--homonymous...
...Wall Street broker (pre Black Monday) instead of a writer. "Writers are not much affected by scandal," says the author, "but bond salesmen can be ruined." Moreover, the alteration meant that Wolfe had to study the breed in its habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners and society. "Realism is a plateau from which literature cannot back down," says Wolfe, acknowledging his debt to Balzac, Thackeray, Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...
...country could live beyond its means indefinitely. The initial Reagan years, with their aura of tinseled optimism, had restored the nation's tattered pride and the lost sense that leadership was possible in the presidency. But he stayed a term too long. As he shouted befuddled Hooverisms over the roar of his helicopter last week or doddered precariously through his press conference, Reagan appeared embarrassingly irrelevant to a reality that he could scarcely comprehend. Stripped of his ability to create economic illusions, stripped of his chance to play host to Mikhail Gorbachev, he elicited the unnerving suspicion that...
...first the President gave no sign that he did. He spoke only in comments shouted to reporters over the roar of helicopter rotors on the White House lawn and in brief formal remarks issued through his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater. On Black Monday, he blithely attributed the crash to "some people grabbing profits" accumulated during the market's long rise. In a statement after the close of trading, he said that "the underlying economy remains sound" -- unwittingly drawing another parallel to 1929, when Herbert Hoover said almost exactly the same thing. On Wednesday, Reagan remarked that the midweek rally indicated...