Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R. for ten days of interviews with Soviet officials and other citizens. It was Isaacson's first visit. "The people we met were as fascinated by the topic as we were," says Isaacson, co-author of a recent book on the beginnings of the cold war, The Wise Men (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). "Before we could pose our questions, they were asking us, 'Can Gorbachev succeed? What do you think will happen...
...Simon & Schuster; 461 pages...
...raised eyebrows by propositioning Warren Beatty onscreen in Shampoo. At 21 she took her career cosmic by playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. Now Carrie Fisher, 30, is making waves again as a first-time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next month, is a dark comedy about a troubled young actress named Suzanne Vale. Overwhelmed by money, men and success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...
Most overused words. "Guts" (Gephardt), "our children" (Biden), "hard choices" (Dukakis) and "cares" (Simon's favorite verb...
Most original proposal. Simon's suggestion that pictures of steelworkers, coal miners and inner-city children replace the presidential portraits in the White House to remind officials for whom they work...