Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Czar Nicholas wed Alexandra in 1894 have Russians encountered a ruler's wife with such presence, such personality, such promise as a subject of mild jokes and elevated eyebrows as Raisa Gorbachev. She is the first spouse of a Soviet leader to weigh less than he does, acid tongues have it in Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board...
...decrying the U.S.S.R. as the "focus of evil in the modern world . . . an evil empire." So what was the most conservative President of the modern age doing in the Grand Kremlin Palace, amid the zinc columns and gilt bronze chandeliers of the St. George Hall, smiling at the ruler of the "evil empire...
...swinging back again, which may account for this week's eleventh-hour attempt to rehabilitate two modernist reputations at once. Neither prizewinner is interested in making a pretense of mellowness. In the acceptance speech he prepared for his daughter to read, Niemeyer disparaged a "minor architecture made with a ruler and square" and, a bit self-servingly, endorsed the "search for the spectacular." The more plainspoken Bunshaft dismisses apostates and revels in his sense of vindication. "I think the committee is saying that modern architecture is pretty good," he reckons. "Young architects are turning away from postmodernism, and I think...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan refused to say yesterday whether he had approved the dropping of drug charges against Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega and defended embattled Attorney General Edwin Meese III, saying his longtime friend would live "under this cloud" if he resigned...
...Kuwait more than 2,000 people attended a funeral for the two men slain aboard the jet. Though many of the mourners called for revenge, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad as-Sabah, Kuwait's ruler, was not likely to order the execution of any of the 17 imprisoned terrorists. That might incite the country's Shi'ite minority, which constitutes about 30% of the population. The Kuwaitis view the hijacking as part of their continuing struggle with Iran, which has sought to destabilize their country in an effort to punish it for supporting Iraq in the gulf...