Word: shaper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal influence, Deaver chooses to behave more like a steward of the presidential image than a shaper of public policy. He is the master of the household, the Lord High Chamberlain of the White House...
...institution has long been known. One cannot imagine New York City, or modernism itself, without it. More than any other museum in the world, MOMA is identified with its subject and defines its history. It was not the intention of Alfred Barr (1902-1981), the first director and ideological shaper of the museum, to create a Louvre for something that seemed, in 1929, as vulnerable and problematic as modern art. Nevertheless, that was what happened. One cannot open a periodical without being told, yet again, that modernism is our institutional culture-a point both repetitive and inescapably true. Its official...
...nonexistent problem, and if we can only get government out of natural gas and possibly out of electricity, we'd be in good shape. I think that that view has had an enormous effect on the public's perception of the problem Reagan is a tremendously effective shaper of public opinion, he's a very effective speaker I think in terms of what he has done. I think he should be applauded for finally decontrolling oil. I think that was a good move I think his instincts are right on gas you ought to deregulate it, but politically it might...
...catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart garnered 60 gold and 24 platinum records...
Faisal was as honorable as he was subtle. He was a man of his word; indeed, he generally delivered more than he promised. If one understood Saudi policy as the result of all the forces at work in the area rather than as the shaper of them, that perception was right. If the statesman acts as the helmsman in storm-tossed seas, Faisal performed masterfully in keeping his fragile bark always heading into the wind and having it emerge intact-no mean achievement, when one considers the fate of countries all around...