Word: summiteer
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...delighting them. Apart from writing in the New Republic, Kinsley has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the Washington Monthly, Harper's and FORTUNE. No one is safe from his bite. After dedicating his 1987 collection of writings, Curse of the Giant Muffins (Summit Books; $17.95), to his parents, Kinsley added, "Any factual errors or lapses of judgment are strictly their fault...
Since the December summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow has been dropping ever more arresting hints of its readiness to bring home the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Last week the man at the top flashed the clearest signal yet, and it sent peace hopes soaring. In a move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that...
...month after her nationals victory, early in 1986, Thomas flew off to Geneva for a summit with the Brooke Shields of Sarajevo, the G.D.R's great Witt (pronounced Vitt). And, for the first time since the Olympics, Witt had to settle for second. Still only 18, Debi was world champion, and the single word she had used to sum herself up on Stanford's application forms suddenly seemed an understatement: "Invincible." Within a year, that would change. Tasting some of Chin's medicine, on two throbbing Achilles tendons, Thomas lost the '87 nationals to Jill Trenary. Then...
...makers began tinkering with Rather's dress and demeanor. Early on, they put him in sweaters in an effort to soften his intensity. For a while, Rather tried hard to be warm and homespun, his writing full of purple prose and corny puns. (Before the start of the Reykjavik summit, he announced, "Ready, set, Gorbachev.") Later he reverted, with equal strain, to a straitlaced, sober, almost glum delivery...
...Reagan connection, however, can have other ripples. Among Republican voters across the nation, Bush wins support from 49%, an increase of 9 points since TIME's December poll, while Dole rises 4 points, to 24%. Bush appears to have benefited from the Reagan-Gorbachev summit and the arms-control treaty. Dole quickly dropped his oft-stated qualms about the nuclear accord, at least partly because of pressure from his Iowa supporters...