Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valedictory mode. The Iran affair simply hastened the process and abruptly concentrated the nation's mind. The 1988 election is coalescing. The parties are sorting out candidates and issues. There are signs of a fundamental change in the nation's political weather, a philosophical mood shift like those that seem to occur in America every generation...
...course there are the dark images of the Iranian fiasco: the President's men skulking around, with cake and Bible and guns, on ventures so goofy as to seem unhinged; the tablets of Valium that Robert McFarlane swallowed. The Iran affair destroyed Reagan's nimbus of immunity, subverted his magic. His political authority derived from the idea that Ronald Reagan believed certain simple things profoundly, with an incorruptible candor. He would bob his head, in the way he has, and smile and say, "Here I stand: I can do no other." Martin Luther washed up on the beaches of Malibu...
...comedy light falls on the shoulders of Conti, the reluctant miracle worker who doesn't believe in miracles. Fortunately Conti, a veteran of many a similar off-the-wall role, proves up to the task. His wry facial expressions, his bedraggled stray-dog appearance and his dry, brittle voice seem appropriate for the exasperated yet ever-jocular...
...time Harvard scored its second goal, the game--and the dream of a national championship--had died. Suddenly, the same taunts that the same Harvard boosters had directed at Bowling Green fans last weekend didn't seem so funny...
After three years of competition, both the ECAC and Hockey East seem to be happy with the way that events have unfolded, but at a cost...