Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Treaty or not, one frightening conclusion seems valid: now that Iraq has used chemical weapons with impunity, at some point another war-weary nation will resort to hellish poisons...
...clarity is partly the result of his refusal to face unpleasant facts. Though cruelly diminished by scandal, Reagan is still widely perceived as the model of a strong President. In fact, for many voters under 30, he has become almost synonymous with the job itself; since World War II, only Dwight Eisenhower, that other benign patriarch, served as long a tenure in the White House. It is no mystery why a conventional politician like Bush seems so wan in comparison and why an unfettered challenger like Dukakis remains so cautious in attacking the incumbent. Reagan has molded public attitudes...
Reza reads a lot, especially stories about the weak using stratagems to beat the strong. An example is The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill, the tale of a battle between pushcart vendors and truck drivers that the pushcart vendors win despite apparently hopeless odds, a triumph of brain over brawn. The movie The Elephant Man brought tears to his eyes. "It reminded me of my problem. I am small, but not bad or strange." He likes Tom and Jerry cartoons. "I feel like Jerry. Tom picks on him the same way people pick on me." In a world full...
...long been a polite fiction. His plans for dividing the kingdom are a surprise to no one; his daughters' resistance to his extravagant wanderings are no meanness but utter common sense in the face of senility; the brutality they eventually show is brought on by invasion and civil war, both instigated by their holier-than- thou sister. Hutt superbly manages Lear's transition from apparent lucidity to frank madness. In the most inspired moment of stage interpolation, his repeated demand as to whether the horses are ready comes as he is already bouncing, and dozing, in a horse-drawn coach...
With his representatives fending off pet proposals by both ultra- conservative s and the tiny progressive remnant, Bush got a platform very much in his own image. Thus armed, he plans to continue to use the stealth gambit against Dukakis. But in politics, as in war, every strategy evokes a response. In being so specific, the G.O.P. has promised potentially expensive goodies to various groups, such as tax breaks for certain oil producers and families that send their children to private school. Any moment now, the Democrats will tag the Republicans as the party of special interests...