Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, with candidates given only a minute to sum up their positions on such complex issues as arms control, the budget deficit, or the Middle East, the debates make simplistic slogans like "no new taxes," abortion is murder," and "I won't touch Social Security," seem acceptable. No candidate who actually hopes to win will dare say that he will raise taxes to bring down the budget deficit, or purposely bring up any other issue of substance. Despite professing sympathy to the needs of all Americans, candidates often seem to adopt the condescending attitude that by speaking in vague...
Washington so far has been trying to play it cool, avoiding the emotionalism that in the past has paralyzed U.S. foreign policy and led to the Iran arms- sale fiasco. Officials sketch a three-part approach. First, the U.S. will talk informally with anyone, anytime. "We keep in touch," says National Security Adviser Colin Powell; he will not say with whom. Second, Washington will officially negotiate only with an "authoritative" representative of the Tehran government, and that stage has not yet been reached. Says one State Department official: "We hear from people who say they know somebody who knows somebody...
...typical movie biography, the protagonist struggles against the world's indifference and malevolence to make himself heard. In the process he acquires those spiritual wounds that justify his bad behavior and lend his inevitable tragic end an instructive note: treat talent kindly; it may be in touch with the infinite...
...Florida, was the first citizen of this former Dutch colony to win an Olympic medal. Biondi, leading at 98 meters, was caught awkwardly between strokes and, a relative newcomer to the fly, tried to glide to the wall. "I was afraid if I took another stroke, what would touch first would be my nose," he explained gloomily. But Nesty, who won the same race in the Pan American Games last year, belonged on the Olympic victory stand, and so did a surprising number of athletes from countries whose representatives used to disappear in the prelims. What happened long...
...Governor Dukakis was seeking renomination, and Sasso was supervising a statewide amendment against raising the tax rates of residential properties. Sasso won, Dukakis lost. They met shortly afterward. Sasso was impressed, and they stayed in touch. In 1980 Sasso helped organize Ted Kennedy's challenge against Jimmy Carter and was an effective Kennedy field director in Iowa and New Jersey. Sasso then signed on for Dukakis' 1982 comeback attempt, helping create Mike II, the newly mellowed conciliator. Notes Alan Baron, a longtime Democratic strategist: "Sasso can deal with people who really dislike Dukakis." Sasso became the Governor's chief secretary...