Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short hours here in Payne Whitney Gym Saturday night, freshman Ron Mitchell and the rest of the Crimson came extremely close, dominating Yale...
There was a growing consensus in Washington that whatever the short-term twists, the country's eventual government would be Islamic in character, though not as radical as Iran's. According to this view, the new regime would not only be sufficiently decentralized to keep power outside Kabul largely in tribal hands but nonthreatening to the Soviets as well. Even the most anti- Soviet mujahedin, says a State Department official, realize that "the Afghans sleep next to the bear, and so they must act accordingly...
...actual risk faced by Rushdie and his publishers if Khomeini sought to follow through on his threat was difficult to gauge. Of the roughly 25,000 Iranians in Britain, it is believed there may be as many as 1,000 radical extremists, including students on short-term visas. Tehran-backed groups have a history of violent mischief in London, mostly bombings aimed at Iranian dissidents. Says Ian Geldard, head of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism: "In the Islamic world, a call from the Imam is a full command . . . The worst of it is that this...
...internal conflict? Not on this score, Darman insists. He has described himself as "a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." Now, in an introspective moment, he adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming...
...violent plot practically guarantee Billy Bathgate a sale to the movies. Good luck to all concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water but light was pouring...