Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's office last week issued a new account of dealings between two of his assistants and a former CIA agent working in Central America that revealed more extensive communications about the contras than were previously known. Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, kept in touch % for years with his Viet Nam comrade Felix Rodriguez, who uses the nom de guerre Max Gomez. After helping Rodriguez in 1985 get a post advising the Salvadoran air force, Gregg talked periodically with him. Last August, Rodriguez informed Gregg that the efforts of the private groups supplying munitions...
...period room of the recently lost future, haunted by a peculiar American dream from the days when model-airplane kits were still mostly balsa. A 1929 high-wing monoplane, bravely lacquered in sky blue and wasp yellow, hangs from the ceiling, almost low enough for the grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry...
...McFarlane in Washington. Kimche suggested that the time was ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said publicly that McFarlane had approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts would eventually prevail in the power struggle already beginning in Tehran over the succession...
...guys, you got it wrong. When Eddie Murphy comes on jiving street smarts (with just a touch of street menace), he needs to land in unnerving proximity to some respectable folks. The sense of danger he imparts to the bourgeoisie in the opening reels of 48 HRS., Trading Places or Beverly Hills Cop is what makes the audience sigh with satisfaction when he reveals his essential good spirit later in the picture...
...touch of color--from a spray paint...