Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designer's best bold stroke was to hollow out the Royalton's long, block-through, columned lobby and bring it alive. People sit here and talk nonsense to one another, order tea -- a liquor license is still to come -- wait for somebody to tilt a chair back, argue about what Starck did right and wrong. (Right: a bar, made of dark marble, with a lovely, sinuous stainless-steel footrest, and a thin strip of glowing blue glass set into the top. Wrong: tacky purple ropes with tassels, holding up enormous mirrors...
...NATO's military diplomacy. The Western alliance, burdened by time- consuming consultation between its members, labored for two years to stake out a negotiating position for the Conventional Security Talks between the East and West, expected to begin next spring in Vienna. "There's the danger that in one stroke Gorbachev can derail the alliance's arms-control planning," warned Abshire. Indeed, as the NATO ministers met in Brussels last week, they did not want to play Scrooge by shunning the Gorbachev Christmas present. However, they wanted far more substantial force reductions than he announced...
Even Costello lost a stroke. The top qualifierfor the 200-yd. breaststroke managed only fourthin 2:21.59. Koerckel remained strong and shaved.38 off her qualifying time to take fifth...
...superbly symbiotic arrangement. The celebrity media fill their space and time; the hype Houdinis manage simultaneously to alert and to anesthetize the moviegoer. At times, they stroke and stoke each other. "Appearances on a lot of shows are designed to impress the media rather than the public," says Warren Cowan, chairman of the Rogers & Cowan agency. "Writers and editors watch the morning shows, say, and decide to check the stories out." For the sake of detente, these natural adversaries must get along to get ahead. "Some journalists say that the publicity machine isn't worth the powder it would take...
...brilliant stroke to run the incumbent Vice President, who was boasting of his own Administration's success, as the candidate of grievance -- of affronts localized in a liberalism that is soft on crime and defense, exotic as a Harvard boutique yet stealthy enough to win an election by misrepresenting itself to the American people. Populism is supposed to be an < appeal to the powerless. The populism of power is a contradiction in terms. But Ailes and Lee Atwater and James Baker made it a successful contraption for garnering votes...