Word: undercutting
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...addition, the President is under heavy fire from the Democrats for letting relations with Moscow drift into limbo. A September meeting with the Soviets, just as the presidential election campaign was heating up, would provide a powerful way for Reagan to undercut the Democrats on the "warmonger" issue. If, against the odds, discussions in Vienna actually amount to something - well, all the better for his chances to campaign as a man of peace...
...California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected, "I got to hold a koala bear," Hart sniggered, "I won't tell you what I got to hold: samples from a toxic-waste dump." Voters in California chuckled; many in New Jersey smoldered. The blunder undercut Hart's best pitch: that New Jersey epitomizes the future he envisions, a state successfully making the transition from moribund heavy industry to high-tech growth...
...Secretary of State also insisted that his trip was not an independent negotiating bid, but an expression of support for the Contadora group (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama), which has been trying to reach a diplomatic solution to the region's conflicts. The Shultz trip not only undercut critics who complain of Reagan's militaristic approach to the area's problems, but was a welcome change of tactics. For the first time, the Administration opened a formal channel for talking with the Sandinistas instead of shunning them...
...Napoleón Duarte prepares to assume the presidency of El Salvador, those land problems are once again under intense scrutiny, both at home and in Washington. At issue is the four-year-old U.S.-backed attempt to bring about social change in El Salvador and undercut support for Marxist-led insurgency among the country's 2.3 million rural inhabitants. The means: a sweeping land-reform program, akin to the one attempted by the U.S. in Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy...
...Dante movie is a lot like the now vicious, now mischievous gremlins. He adroitly makes his characters seem to aim straight for the jugular, then along the way, find something more diverting to do with all that energy. Whenever the occasion permits, Dante loves to undercut the visceral impact of the horror genre with a clip from an old movie or a spitballing, pratfalling sight gag. His loopy werewolf melodrama, The Howling (1981), and his profligately imaginative episode of last year's Twilight Zone: The Movie are both energized by this sly schizophrenia. In Twilight Zone, the smile becomes...