Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Reagan has always been attended by an aura of amiable averageness. The producer Alfred de Liagre said that Reagan on film "always had the manner of an earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...
...sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year, Lehman ordered an investigation into...
...blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each food station around the reception room creates an environment. The sushi bar. Or the taco bar. Or fettucini Alfredo. There's drama, action in front of the guest...
...lead over the U.S. in the practical exploitation of space. That is the jarring message of the 1986 edition of Jane's Spaceflight Directory, published in Britain last week. Editor Reginald Turnill's appraisal is based partly on the fact that the Soviets have already launched the Mir space station, possibly the base module for an even larger structure, while it is likely the U.S. space station will not be operational until 1996, at best. "That's the ten-year gap, and this was the case before Challenger exploded," Turnill declares. "One can even argue that it's more...
...example, a recent radio commercial has George Bachrach bursting into a radio station and insisting, despite a disc jockey's protests, on telling people his message. A television commercial pictures little old George standing next to and talking tough to this big fat general. All these attempts to reach the public bring little credibility to Bachrach's complaint that the Kennedy campaign is simply a name and no substance...