Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was only one sour note in all this excitement. The great-grandfather of all these celebrations, "Easters" at the University of Maryland, celebrated on Easter weekend, was cancelled this year by Student Affairs Vice-President Ernest Ern. It was the first cancellation of the event in its 92 year long history...
...both sides come in with their maximum demands, then eventually settle for something approximately halfway between. START, however, is unique in the history of Soviet-American negotiations in that the American position has become increasingly less negotiable as time has gone by. Rather than introducing sweeteners to the rather sour pot in Geneva, the Administration has added new features to its position that are even less acceptable to the Soviets than those in the original proposal...
...more interesting is his analysis of why the United States began to return to a hard line. Arbatov believes that a feeling of impotence overtook American policy makers when the USSR reached military parity with the U.S. This feeling was exacerbated when the U.S. economy started to sour and events in Iran proved American night had become less effective in resolving conflicts. With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Americans showed that they longed for the past, that "the mood of nostalgia for the 'American Century' was quite strong...
...stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best of them are stethoscopes detecting sounds often unheard: the diminished pulse beat of a love gone sour, the anxiety beneath male bravado, the hum of appliances in a lonely woman's flat. One must listen closely; Aznavour's charisma is implosive. He does not play to the audience so much as he admits it to his bittersweet, no-illusions world...
...theaters. Today, like pasta, pizza and the humble potato, popcorn has gone gourmet. Or, at least, wild. Now, with a few of the dozens of new flavors available, it is possible to have an entire dinner composed of popcorn. After the cocktail hour (piña colada flavor with sour-cream-and-onion popcorn for hors d'oeuvres), the finger-fed meal features New England-clam-chowder popcorn, barbecue popcorn for entrees, fruit salad composed of strawberry, grape and cantaloupe popcorn and, for dessert, chocolate-fudge popcorn...