Word: speake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked that the blossoms resembled female genitalia, O'Keeffe ordered her to turn off the microphone and refused to speak about "such rubbish...
...book should be published in the U.S. so that Americans could better understand what Japanese are thinking. But someone circulated a pirated translation, a clear infringement of copyright. The book is basically written for Japanese readers, to tell them that it's time for Japan to stand up and speak its mind. I mention at one point in the book that Japan could drastically change the world balance of power by selling advanced computer chips to the Soviet Union. This is a very provocative thought, even...
Early this year she began speaking out eagerly on the issue of substance abuse. Her schedule of public appearances soon quickened. Elegant and direct in front of audiences, Kitty was in enthusiastic demand. She whisked off to speak in the Midwest, then to Greece and back in 72 hours, then out again across the country. Her distraught husband watched in alarm. He knew well his wife's deep insecurities. "Kitty can't stand being out of the limelight," he told a close aide. "I don't know what...
...could the steely Dukakis so lose his grip? Some say it took him months to get over the guilt of waging so flimsy a campaign. Others found confirmation of longstanding misgivings about Dukakis, the odd and uncomfortable politician so pathetically incapable of relating to others. Example: never did he speak about his presidential defeat in a personal way to Massachusetts voters who were so stirred by his candidacy. They came to resent that...
...crowd that waited for him to speak in front of West Berlin's city hall occupied every foot of the square and all the connecting streets. Kennedy raised his jaw and chopped the air with his hand, his voice growing ragged as he shouted his challenges to the other world and answered with his famous $ refrain, "Let them come to Berlin." In that moment the tribute Kennedy gave to those people was as honorably held, as profoundly pure as anything he had ever said. It was made of truth and given to history. "Ich bin ein Berliner...