Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Midlife would like to speak with Gorbachev this week. Not about the missiles or Nicaragua -- about middle-agedness. "Mikhail Sergeyevich, don't you feel like throwing in the towel sometimes?" Captain Midlife was watching when Tom Brokaw, another middle-ager, asked, "man to man," what do you think and feel? But Gorbachev could only answer state to man, and the more certain he sounded, the less certain he looked. In middle age the gulf between what you are and who you are is too wide to cross, too -- what? -- extreme. Who knows what turmoil lurks in the hearts...
Mikhail Gorbachev has been sensitive about the criticism of his wife. The only section of his interview with NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw that was edited out of the Soviet broadcast last week concerned Raisa. Asked if he discussed national politics with his wife, Gorbachev replied, "We discuss everything." Censors excised Brokaw's follow-up, "Including Soviet affairs at the highest level?," and Gorbachev's terse retort, "I think I have answered that question in toto. We discuss everything...
Harry Truman once compared "Uncle Joe" Stalin with Tom Pendergast, the Kansas City political boss: both were wily machine politicians who could be bargained with. Every President since then has been tempted to personalize America's unwieldy struggle with the Soviet Union. Even Ronald Reagan. Before dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, the former president of the Screen Actors Guild said he was reminded of his days dealing with the old studio moguls. Last week, awaiting the arrival of the world's most unlikely new superstar, Reagan came up with an even more fitting personal analogy. "I don't resent...
...into America's living rooms for a chat last week, followed by twelve aspiring Presidents and then the old master, Reagan. The whole nation got a chance to size everyone up personally. Smiling Mike, exuding the commanding presence that Americans yearn for in their own leaders, treated NBC's Tom Brokaw like a sharp schoolboy. When the candidates' turn came on Tuesday, Brokaw made them look like schoolboys. There was an unnerving upshot of turning everyone into a TV personality: Gorbachev, the leader of America's most dangerous global adversary, ended the week with a 2-to-1 approval ratio...
...really getting to be scary," complains Defense Attorney Tom Nolan of Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going back to 16th and 17th century Britain, where if you committed a crime you forfeited your property." Possessions used in committing certain federal crimes, a car for example, have long been subject to seizure. Since 1970, however, Congress has also allowed confiscation of the proceeds of some crimes under half a dozen major federal crimebusting statutes. Business began booming after a 1984 law provided for seizure of crime-related assets even if they have been sold or transferred. Moreover, money from the sale...