Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules that should govern America's commitments abroad. Ever since Viet Nam, Democratic Party activists have increasingly been drawn toward neoisolationism, as expressed by George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations, and in accordance with international law. His world view reflects...
...motivated by the philosophy of former Interior Secretary James Watt that the parks are for the people -- and if the people want extra bathrooms, fast food and motels, so be it. It is only elitists, Watt used to say, who have the time and money to tiptoe through the tall grass, hearkening to birdcalls. He demonstrated his point by roaring through Yellowstone on a snowmobile...
...committed in 1930 and spent the last three decades of his life in a California madhouse. There, he drew all the time. One could hardly imagine a more marginal existence, yet Ramirez's drawings are of phantasmal and sometimes ravishing beauty. One in this show, the tall Untitled (Tunnels and Trains) from the 1950s, is so grand in its architecture of repeated curves that it deserves a place in any anthology of American drawing...
That hasn't prevented at least 1,400 companies -- entertainment giants like Paramount as well as scores of small mom-and-pop operations -- from plunging into the field with an eclectic selection of specialized cassettes. Looking for stars? Tim Conway plays a 4-ft.-tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print...
...messenger unaware, the pith-helmeted colored, or mixed-race, mailman pedaled his bicycle past the bougainvillea that lined the quiet suburban street. He stopped and rang the bell at the home of a theology professor at South Africa's Stellenbosch University. A tall, stoop-shouldered man came to the door. Curious, then amazed, the mailman watched the professor open the envelope, read the brief message and suddenly begin weeping. The mailman had no way of knowing they were tears...