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...breezy Bush presidency provided the right atmosphere for Gorbachev to tone down her glitzy image, mollifying the folks back home waiting in bread lines wearing RAISA NYET buttons on their nondesigner lapels. Instead of the three wardrobe changes a day of her 1987 visit, Gorbachev adopted a dare-to- be-frumpy look for her round of appearances at the Library of Congress, the Capital Children's Museum and the Lincoln bedroom. Although she could not resist adding glitter to Thursday's embassy lunch with such celebrities as Jane Fonda and Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need...
Gorbachev was rebutting an argument that American officials dare not make in public and are circumspect about making even in private. Their winks and nods, euphemisms and disclaimers can be translated into one stark sentence that summarizes the only truly strategic thought the U.S. Government has about the 21st century: a Germany "anchored" in NATO is less likely to cause trouble than one that is neutral and nonaligned. Note the verb, with its metaphorical suggestion not only of safety from rough seas but also of a heavy chain and benevolent captivity...
...common usage, there are different standards. The new pornography is violence, often sexual violence. And the new obscenity is race. For most people, it's O.K. to call someone a bastard but not a nigger or a kike. But Clay is saying the taboo words we don't dare use. That's why he's popular. He's telling the secrets we keep inside...
...women pick on Barbara Bush? If anything, the feminist police should give her an award for resisting pressure from every side to slim down, work out, dye her hair, hide her wrinkles or wear clothes no grandchild would dare drool on. Instead the First Lady must be feeling a little like Henry Kissinger, who attracted protests nearly every time he was invited to a college campus. But it's not the secret bombing of Cambodia that has a quarter of the senior class at Wellesley College objecting to the First Lady as speaker at this year's graduation...
...Arab Christian woman living outside Bethlehem did not dare make Easter eggs this year. Reason: "Our Muslim brothers consider any signs of celebration a violation of the intifadeh." In West Beirut some churches canceled Palm Sunday processions through Muslim streets or shifted Easter midnight Mass to 3:30 p.m. so that worshipers could be home by nightfall. "How can we celebrate Easter?" asks a refugee from inter-Christian fighting. "We have never been this...