Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other needs of that kind are most acute in countries that can least afford to supply them, however handsomely a constitution is composed. Besides, countries like Liberia and Nigeria may cherish the most articulate aspirations, but as T.S. Eliot wrote, "between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow." The reality may be one of coups, civil wars and misery...
...been as sweet as hot raspberries. "She is a champion from within. All from within," he says. "But her extra advantage may be the circle around her -- her mother and brother too." (A practice partner, Czech Pro Pavel Slozil, takes care to coach in whispers and cast a short shadow.) "It is not important who is called coach," says Peter Graf, "but she looks to me." Meanwhile, Navratilova's slump has coincided with several shufflings of the complicated cast of characters around...
...campaign was an ill-tempered four-week ordeal, with Labor's main hatchet man, Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey, variously comparing the Prime Minister to Catherine the Great and Genghis Khan. The electorate looked on in apparent bemusement at a campaign that rarely sent the national pulse racing and was, American-style, fought out largely on television. In another imitation of U.S. campaigning, both major parties relied on photo opportunities, carefully choreographed meetings with voters, and ticket- holders-only rallies of the faithful...
...Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party. She repudiated...
...symbolism. "Vive le Canada," he intoned. Talks on trade and a fishing dispute produced no new agreements. But both Mulroney and Mitterrand had reason to be pleased as the French President boarded his Concorde SST for the flight home. The visit's very lack of excitement meant that a shadow hanging over relations between the two countries was, after nearly two decades, effectively dispelled...