Word: whirlwinding
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...energetic diplomat who made shuttle diplomacy famous during the Nixon and Ford Administrations has maintained a whirlwind pace ever since his controversial appointment by President Reagan last month. He has conferred with congressional leaders and huddled with the top-ranking diplomats of Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, the so-called Contadora group that is seeking a negotiated settlement in the region. He has also talked with the envoys of all the Central American nations involved in the conflict, including the new ambassador from the U.S.-opposed Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. But, amid all the activity, Kissinger still found time...
...Little Joe is winding down now, but for five seasons, not just the two years he was MVP of the National League, Morgan was the whirlwind in Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, and over his 21-year career he has been the most powerful and productive second baseman since Rogers Hornsby. Morgan meets the simplest Hall of Fame criterion. He was the best second baseman of his era. Even in his dotage, Morgan showed others how to win. Possibly 'his enthusiasm for canonizations is affected by a premonition that Morgan's and Rose's silent partner...
While Washington's whirlwind six-hour tour of Boston garnered much publicity its eventual impact remains unclear...
Nunn demonstrates, as he did in his productions of Nicholas Nickleby and Cats, that he is a showman-scholar who can infuse the most daunting of projects with whirlwind grandeur. Under John Gunter's airy greenhouse of a set, All's Well teems with musical-comedy bustle: dashing cadets in aviator goggles, marching bands and sultry chanteuses, and a Florence railway station full of Nunn's beloved smoke effects. But there is gravity here as well as buoyancy. A mood of Chekhovian wistfulness is set at the start with the valse triste of a young couple fated...
...bright little man who was a whirlwind for the Reds in the '70s, Morgan believes modestly that he will be Rose's edge this year. "Pete will want to prove to Joe Morgan he can still play, just as I want to show Pete Rose I can still play." Their clubhouse method of staying loose is to ridicule each other and everyone else fondly, but often mercilessly. How this will play in Philadelphia, where feelings are fragile, should be interesting. "When you kid around," says Perez, who supplies the perspective, as usual, "you become a friend, not just...