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...heard and read almost daily allusions to Reagan as a power-mad ideologue intent on crushing the Communist system would recognize the editorial as Moscow's way of preparing the Soviet citizenry for news of the Gromyko-Reagan meeting, which has still not been officially announced. Whether this awkward analogy was intended to justify anything beyond the need to meet was not clear, but the context in which it placed the whole affair was hardly cause for encouragement. Nor for that matter was the blizzard of cartoons that continued to appear in Soviet periodicals depicting Reagan in grotesquely bullying...
...that would lead to negotiations," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "They really couldn't say no this time." Observes Arnold Horelick, a Rand Corp. expert on the Soviet Union: "The Kremlin leaders are sensitive about being depicted as sulking, hunkered down and petulant. It would have been awkward for the Soviet leadership to turn down such an invitation...
...Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green, co-author of There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, confessed to an awkward moment: "At first I didn't want to wave a flag. But on the last night of the convention I was waving two of them." The party was demonstrating to itself and to the public that Democrats were no longer embarrassed by corny displays of national zeal. "I think that...
Hingsen knew it was over. He managed a javelin throw of only 198 ft. 3 in., 23 ft. short of his best. After several awkward practice heaves, Thompson launched a toss of 214 ft., followed by the obligatory grin. In the final event, the 1,500 meters, Thompson could have changed his shirt while racing and still won the gold. But he had to run at least 4:34.8 to break Hingsen's decathlon record of 8,798 points. Seemingly easing up at the end, however, Thompson trudged across the finish line in 4:35, two-tenths...
...their peers had a remarkable and unrecorded influence on New York, and hence America, in the days before women "got sidetracked in the dreary cul-de-sac of men's jobs." He makes it his task to write their history and, through the mechanics of the sometimes awkward plot, persuades nearly every one of them to pour out her heart...