Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew more than one language could express himself memorably in any. (Take that, Nabokov! Et tu, Samuel Beckett...
...future may not be as bleak as the present. Thomas Ryder, president of American Express Publishing, predicts that the consumer-magazine industry will emerge from its slump during the next 18 months "shaken, but stronger for it." In the meantime, certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time...
...grant of immunity. People who know the admiral well are convinced that the effort will come to naught, that history will have to judge Reagan -- where the buck really stops -- on the fuzzy story before us. "John Poindexter was made a flag officer in the U.S. Navy for the express reason that he would not break in a crisis," says retired Admiral Clarence Hill Jr., a friend and manager of Poindexter's legal fund. "He did not. And he is not going to break in the future. He believes he is right...
...still alive, and I can't reveal the details or the names of those who offered their assistance. Many of them asked me not to, and I'm not about to violate their confidence; not everyone wants to become a hero of this book. I would like only to express my sincere thanks to those who helped...
...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 no parenthetical explanation even in Moscow -- she had the political sense to leave her gold American Express card at home, the $1,700 Cartier diamond earrings in the jewelry box and a sweep through swank department stores off the program...