Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire, urging a conference of foster grandparents to get involved in the fight against teenage drug abuse. The First Lady declined to make any comment on her pending test. Said Conference Participant Shireen Tilly, executive director of the Friends Program: "She put on a brave front and a warm, gracious...
...horror story, though there are horrors for the Rohans to endure. And though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises; most families find the strength to soldier on. Boorman is even gracious enough to cap his film with an idyllic reunion of clan Rohan. Mum and her sisters giggle conspiratorially; young Bill, now a gentleman of precious leisure, goes boating on the river. These are images every moviegoer can share as he closes Boorman's lovely memory book...
...most part, however, Bork found life on the D.C. Appeals Court, with its heavy diet of technical regulatory issues, unexciting. When his colleague and friend Antonin Scalia was named to fill a 1986 Supreme Court vacancy, Bork was gracious publicly but privately irritated, fearing that Reagan would leave office before another seat opened up. Last spring, shortly before he was nominated to replace Lewis Powell, Bork decided not to hire clerks for the 1988 term, opening the way for his resignation at the end of Reagan's term...
...qualities that hit a visitor most forcibly on arrival in Cuba are its beauty and its buoyancy: the crooked streets and sunlit Spanish courtyards of Old Havana; the chrome-polished 1953 Chevrolets that croak along tree-lined streets past faded but still gracious homes of lemon yellow, orange and sky blue; the warm breeze that comes off the sea at night. In contrast to the gray functionalism of other Communist countries, Cuba is, after all, a decidedly Caribbean island of gaiety and light. On balmy nights, the sound of rumbas pulses through Coppelia, the central park, where brightly dressed teenagers...
...student earnestness. It is ingrained in her speech: her husband's campaign will provide her with an "opportunity"; she looks forward to the "challenge." Deep down, she is still traditional. "When Bob makes his announcement," she says, "instinctively I want to be at his side." Warm, feminine and indefatigably gracious, she embodies what Americans seem to expect of a potential First Lady, but not precisely what they were used to in a powerful and problem-plagued Cabinet Secretary. Combining those two roles, she found, is nearly impossible. At least these days...