Word: thatcherism
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...recent black-tie function in Washington, Reagan added his entry to the Gary Hart Anthology of Humor. Reagan said that if Hart were president, he might hear this in a meeting with Margaret Thatcher...
...Thatcher: "Gorbachev wants your hands off Afghanistan, Castro wants your hands off Central America and I want your hands...
...have also made a heavy Stateside impression by concocting easeful pop that shirks issues and shrugs off anything more serious than having a good time. Major American talent like Bruce Springsteen often carries a big thematic stick, but Britpoppers wield a club -- a nightclub where the solipsism of Thatcher's England is chilled out, prettied up and danced to till dawn. If you have the world's weight on your shoulders, after all, you can't shake your booty...
Weaton calls himself a radical socialist, but the Pet Shop Boys, who shy away from direct political writing and look like fashion objets themselves, end up saying the most about the Britpop scene and about the years of Thatcher's England. Shopping, from their current album Actually, sounds like a recessional hymn for a fashion show until Tennant's lyrics catch hold: "Our gain is your loss/ That's the price you pay/ I heard it in the House of Commons/ Everything's for sale." Britpop may be so smooth and cool that it has brought...
...days after the fizz had gone out of the New Year's champagne, corks were ready to pop again in London. The occasion this time was Margaret Thatcher's 3,164th day in office, making her Britain's longest continuously serving Prime Minister this century. The previous record holder was Herbert Asquith, who occupied 10 Downing Street from 1908 to 1916. The achievement so pleased Thatcher, 62, that she postponed a trip to Africa to toast the occasion with her husband Denis. The Prime Minister has often dropped hints that she is prepared to "go on and on," raising speculation...