Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Popular Film at the Montreal Film Festival, and is an overwhelming box-office success in its native Australia. The setting is breathtaking, and the camera skillfully captures the ominous power of the terrain and the majesty of the wold horse pack. The opening shots, which zoom in as stallions thunder across the plain silhouetted against an electric blue sky, are particularly magnificent...
...White House is annoyed but not especially worried by the thunder on the far right. "When are they going to elect a more conservative President than Ronald Reagan in this century?" asks Presidential Assistant Michael Deaver. "Never." As for Phillips, Viguerie and the rest, Deaver has run out of fraternal feeling. "Screw 'em," he says, "and you can quote me." The President is far more politic but knows that his zealous conservative constituents need him more than he needs them. The 1982 elections, in which the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent $4.5 million but had scant influence, produced...
...command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which Argentina tested the decline of European power by seizing the Falkland Islands, only to see Britain, led by doughty Margaret Thatcher, meet the test by taking them back...
...teammates dressed him in his pads. He stands 5 ft. 7 in. "After I kicked the ball, I stood for a moment admiring it. Since I was getting a lot of money, I figured it was part of my job to pick up the tee." He heard the thunder of hoofs. "I ran for my life to the sidelines." Laughter greeted him there. "I couldn't understand it. Then I realized I had run to the wrong sideline. I was sitting with the Baltimore Colts...
...list of 20 Senators, including such improbable targets as Pat Moynihan of New York and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. Political realities eventually shrank the list to five, but NCPAC still raised $10 million and spent $4.5 million in the 1982 elections. Yet last week, for all its thunder, the New Right could claim partial credit only for the defeat of a single, vulnerable incumbent, Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada...