Word: puts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oval Office Thursday afternoon, declared himself "very pleased" but seemed oddly subdued. Aides attributed that partly to his natural caution, partly to uncertainty about what the news meant, largely to a desire to do or say nothing that might provoke a crackdown in East Germany. As the President put it, "We're handling it in a way where we are not trying to give anybody a hard time." By Friday, though, Bush realized he had badly underplayed a historic event and, in a speech in Texas, waxed more enthusiastic. "I was moved, as you all were, by the pictures," said...
...such talk might have been hard to believe. Today, with the barrier chipped, battered and permeable, it is a good deal easier to accept. In the end it does not matter whether Eastern Europe's Communists are reforming out of conviction or if, as one East German protest banner put it, THE PEOPLE LEAD -- THE PARTY LIMPS BEHIND. What does matter is that the grim, fearsome Wall, for almost three decades a marker for relentless oppression, has overnight become something far different, a symbol of the failure of regimentation to suppress the human yearning for freedom. Ambassador Herder declared that...
...observant of playwright Robert Harling to see that a small-town beauty parlor can function as a little lodge hall for women, a place where they can let their hair down while it is being put up. It was clever of him to stock Steel Magnolias with Southern belles, wicked of eye and tongue, though ultimately forgiving of heart. It was shrewd of him to work his successful off-Broadway drama around personal milestones (marriage, birth, death) that everyone shares. His characters may be exotics, but their situations are achingly familiar...
...good role models," says Donnie. "When we say no to drugs, it's from seeing people around us using them." The Kids all hail from Dorchester, a blue-collar section of Boston where the street action can run pretty heavy. Maurice Starr, 35, the drummer and producing whiz who put the Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr" reads a large credit on the Hangin' Tough album...
Bush and Gorbachev will begin to address these questions at the Saltwater Summit. What can two men in a boat do when they put up their feet? Primarily, they will have the chance to assure each other that they both are eager to avoid crackdowns in East bloc states. The Club Med casualness will provide the perfect atmosphere to discuss the beneficial roles that NATO and the Warsaw Pact could play during a time of exciting but potentially dangerous transition...