Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremendous difference is going to be on the national security of this country, how to deal with the major world problems and who best to sit across * the table from Gorbachev or a wide array of other leaders, who best to lead the alliance, who has enough confidence and experience to chart a course for the future. My case to the American people is, that's me. I'd be better at this than Michael Dukakis...
Actu'lly, th' funniest part of the show is th' costumes. I liked Weston's hobo outfit that makes him look like Emmett Kelly Jr., Wesley's jeans that sit too low in th' seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught...
Bumpers, after much agonizing, opted to sit out the 1988 presidential race, a decision he says he has since questioned. "It wouldn't be normal not to have second thoughts from time to time," Bumpers said. But nonetheless, the senator says he feels "pretty comfortable" with the decision...
...formal schedule for putting into effect the conference reforms. Gorbachev has suggested that voters will choose a new 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies as early as next April. Elections for local and regional legislatures will probably be held in late 1989. But Gorbachev clearly will not sit idle in the interim. Last week a U.S. State Department official suggested that a grand gesture may be forthcoming from Moscow in the near future: the unilateral withdrawal of the 65,000 Soviet troops stationed in Hungary...
...leaves the reader to guess how he would answer the simpler importunities: a "pleasing request to sit on the pavement for two days outside the Russian Embassy," or invitations to memorial services for departed rivals (though these are "more satisfying than learning they have published a new book"). It is the more drearily typical epistles that raise his ire and ironic spirit...