Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before the Iran-contra affair, Americans had a suspicion that Reaganism had gone too far in trying to rescind the more generous work of Government: cutting Aid to Families with Dependent Children, for example, and federal funds for housing while running up the military budget from $134 billion in 1980 to $266 billion in 1986. (Although as a percentage of the gross national product, non-defense spending has declined very slightly and is still more than double defense spending.) The dream of salvation -- "Get the Government off the backs of the American people and release the energies of free...
WITH THEIR recent reissue of--among other Gardner books--The Sunlight Dialogues, his lengthiest and best work, Vintage Books is helping to resolve that controversy. There was always the suspicion that because Gardner's books were set in the 1960's and reflected the turbulence of that period so well, they were somehow limited to that time. Yet even though we are now in the latter half of the the supposedly calm and reflective '80s, The Sunlight Dialogues, first published in 1972, is as fresh and pertinent as ever...
...Australia, Shevardnadze sought to remove "reefs of apprehension and suspicion" about Soviet activity in the South Pacific by insisting that his country seeks only normal diplomatic and commercial relations. Despite his avowed desire for peace and stability, Southeast Asian nations expressed concern over Soviet support of Hanoi, which invaded Kampuchea in 1978. The / six-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations backs the anti-Vietnamese coalition of Kampuchean guerrillas...
Whatever set of regulations emerges, it will take time to undo the severe damage to the City of London's reputation. For many Brits, the Guinness affair has reaffirmed a deeply felt suspicion of the City. Recently, 80% of those surveyed in a Gallup poll believed that the charges of "shady dealings" and "corruption" applied to "many" City companies. "I always felt there are bigger rogues at the top than there are at the bottom," says George Payne, a foreman at British Road Services' Oxford depot. "So this is no surprise...
Soon enough, there is. Also mousetraps and bear traps, corpses in the attic and the bedroom, the glass of milk from Suspicion and the severed finger from The 39 Steps. Penn, who could direct this stuff in his sleep, hasn't. The director of Bonnie and Clyde and the Broadway thriller Wait Until Dark still knows how to slap a scene to life. In the triple role of a dead woman, her scheming sister and the plucky gal who must literally act to save her own life, Steenburgen finds a few shadings in each caricature. But the script (by Marc...