Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Reagan has written half a dozen letters on his azure linen paper and sent them to Moscow. They all had a personal touch. Sometimes Reagan added a postscript, not the usual form in diplomatic messages. Other times he made certain to foreshadow events, like the fact that he would announce an idea for a chemical-warfare treaty and send Vice President George Bush to Geneva to present it. So far, Reagan is still waiting for a warm, even a human, reply...
...blue jeans and cardigan until inflation rocketed and the Ayatullah Khomeini seized Iran and the hostages; then he looked to many like a peanut farmer in over his head. Reagan cuts a fine figure at ceremonies, but in hard times he might seem much too blithe and out of touch. The Democrats will argue, of course, that hard times are looming, that the big deficit and rising interest rates presage economic disaster. "The fear factor is important," says Democratic Pollster Peter Hart. "People will ask, Will I be unemployed in the next twelve months...
...Mexican border. A floor vote on the Simpson-Mazzoli bill (named for its coauthors, Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky) is expected this week. President Reagan put in a plug for passage at his news conference Thursday night. Said he, with a touch of hyperbole: "We have lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive...
...runners are frequently besieged by people seeking autographs or taking pictures, eager to touch the torch or even its bearer. Roberta Ciccarelli, 38, a schoolteacher in Blairsville, Ga., raised $2,150 by knocking on doors in her town of 530, and her husband put up the rest. When she trotted through Blairsville, 1,000 people lined the route, cheering her on. "I kept hearing people yelling my name, 'Go, Robbie!' and 'Come on, Mrs. Ciccarelli!' I don't remember breathing. My lungs didn't hurt, my legs didn't hurt. It was like...
...hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...