Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whirlwind of high-pressure politics, Ronald Reagan was waging the most perilous and difficult fight of his presidency. The stakes were high. If he failed to persuade Congress to pass a deficit-checking $99 billion three-year tax hike, the already swollen tide of red ink in the federal budget would rise even higher, swamping hopes for economic recovery and threatening deeper recession. Politically, a President who seemed to have a magic wand for passing major legislation would have shown that he could no longer control even his own party on Capitol Hill. The myth of the Great Communicator...
...populous democracy. Clad in a silk sari, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was met on the White House South Lawn last week by the President of the world's most powerful democracy. Her White House visit, highlighted by a glittering state banquet, was part of a whirlwind tour of America intended to reverse a decade of cool relations between the two countries. With a grandeur and grace that was reciprocated by her hosts, the Prime Minister succeeded both symbolically and substantively...
Turner's whirlwind pace leaves most aides looking a little shellshocked. He is a kaleidoscope of ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide...
...other housebreaker merits note. As a calf-eyed aspiring playwright with a manic giggle and an iron handshake, Nathan Lane is the kind of disciple who could drive a deity to drink. Doubling as director of Present Laughter, Scott favors a whirlwind pace and high-decibel delivery. Casting himself against type is a bonus. This is a Patton pistol-whipped by endless frustration. There is high glee in watching George C. Scott do a fast burn of impotent, unutterable rage. - By T.E. Kalem
...first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice and not unflattering for the Iraqi President to be our driver and tour guide...