Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story line could easily support a high-tension adventure thriller: call it Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Celluloid Gods. A major Hollywood motion-picture studio dangles over a financial precipice. Suspense mounts. The studio's grip is slipping. Will a rescue come in time? Yes! No! Wait! A dark and dashing film executive comes running! With amazing speed and savvy, he and a band of executive sidekicks fashion socko new feature films and perform brilliant marketing acrobatics. Finally, the studio swings across the threatening void. On the other side it finds -- what else? -- a king's ransom...
...decorated his office with a stuffed lion, a windup dragon and games purchased from sidewalk vendors. He admits that toys are on his mind a lot, so much so, he confesses, "that I began thinking about this story last April. I was told, however, that it had to wait for Christmas...
...both, as proof that the Administration intends to make a fresh start. Call the key figures in the Iran arms-contra funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional investigators or, eventually, an independent counsel to force out all the facts about North's sticky web of arms and money dealings. That will only intensify the drip, drip, drip of daily revelations that is wearing away the White House's credibility at an alarming rate...
...wait! that gift was already sent...
...Gardner Museum would have to wait for another...