Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has made a surprisingly poor target. President Reagan has not been playing George Wallace, hurling racist slurs, and chanting "segregation forever." While David Stockman's book reveals some racist attitudes at the White House, and the press worried for a while that Reagan was going to "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the Reagan Administration has taken a pretty low-key posture on civil rights...
Washington's tolerance for Meese is fading. No Republican, particularly not George Bush, wants to head into the November elections while Meese sits in the Justice Department offering a fat target for Democratic attacks. Reagan, unmoved by the accounts of the resigned Justice officials, bellowed a loud no when asked last week whether Meese should resign. But not even Reagan may be able to stand by his pal when later this spring Independent Counsel James McKay issues what will be at best a highly critical report on Meese's unethical conduct...
Other Israelis found no room for doubt. "Anyone directing terrorism is a proper target for elimination," said Major General Amnon Shahak, the I.D.F.'s head of intelligence. Some Israelis predicted that the attack would boost morale throughout the country, and especially within an army frustrated by its inability to put down the uprising and polish Israel's international image as a formidable foe. They suggested that by robbing the P.L.O. of the man responsible for military operations against Israel, the operation had delivered the Palestinians a crippling blow that would demoralize their spirits and deflate the uprising...
...first act, the characters are members of a supposedly repressed 1880s British family in colonial Africa. The Big Joke, I suppose, is the shameless promiscuity behind the family's stiff-upper-lip facade. So what? Imperialist Victorians aren't exactly a daring target for satire. They are no harder to make fun of than, say, 1980s yuppies...
...personality. The sharp, biting tone Johnson uses when speaking to his men reverberates effectively through the theater and convinces the audience that Waters is completely insensitive and entirely too demanding. When a higher ranking white officer forces Waters to buckle under Johnson shows Waters' softer side. Johnson's on-target facial expressions convey Waters' feelings of pain and humiliation to the audience...