Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here till the bitter end," says a departing aide. "I wouldn't want to be around when Ronald Reagan packs his bags. It won't just be the end of an Administration. It will be the end of a political career...
...afford to relax a little. It will relax still more if next week's party conference keeps its promise of liberalizing Soviet society -- even if delegates do not snake-dance down the aisles in funny hats amid balloons and confetti, as their American counterparts will be doing later this summer in Atlanta and New Orleans...
...convention, complacency and middle-class values. Thirty years later, The American Dream and The Zoo Story have lost some of their relevance--and thus some of their power to disturb the complacent viewer. But Albee's disarming absurdity and brutal frankness remain, and thanks to a talented Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Theater company, those qualities can still make audiences squirm in their seats...
Bull Durham is a dandy summer baseball yarn starring Kevin Costner. -- Red Heat is Arnold Schwarzenegger' s neat new pecs-' n'- sex epic...
...countries, which were split in 1948, is not a forbidden topic. Every South Korean President has said that rejoining the two countries is a top priority. But relations between North and South are still hostile, and many South Koreans who cheered the students' successful push for democratic reforms last summer have reservations about the protesters' current cause. As the owner of a Seoul bakery summed it up: "I supported the students + when they fought for democracy. This time I don't understand them...