Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of Transportation, presided over a $500-a-head cocktail bash for the new Dole Foundation, which benefits the handicapped. Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors threw a wingding on behalf of a conservative political-action committee; for $1,000 guests got to gamble away complimentary chips aboard the docked riverboat First Lady...
...from the sidelines; they had to learn to make compromises and lubricate the legislative wheels. The experience has been sobering. Majority Leader Baker, the son-in-law and political heir of Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, warned at the outset that supply-side economics would be a "riverboat gamble"; now he worries about how to cut the resulting federal deficits ($195 billion last year). State Governors, of course, have long since struggled to balance budgets. The pragmatist wing of the party includes Illinois Governor James Thompson and Vermont's Richard Snelling...
...park's previews, visitors gushed and oohed. Sporting beanies with mouse ears, they floated through Americana on a Mark Twain riverboat and Davy Crockett explorer canoes and railroaded through the Wild West on a train pulled by a steam locomotive. In a word, said one Japanese housewife, it was subarashii!-terrific...
...filmed Aguirre, to shoot a sunnier version of that pathetic tale. At the end of the last century, an entrepreneur named Fitzcarrald dreamed of bringing his passion, grand opera, to the savage Indians upriver; to fulfill his dream, and with the Indians' help, he lugged a small riverboat across a narrow strip of land that separated two tributaries of the Amazon. It was a feat of autocracy and artistry, of engineering and enlightened madness-a readymade metaphor for Herzog's kind of film making. The movie would also be his first "big" production, with financial help from Coppola...
...During the Hesse campaign, the S.P.D. plastered Free Democratic posters with red stickers denouncing their "Betrayal in Bonn." In recent speeches, Schmidt has heaped scorn on the Free Democrats, calling Genscher a Weinpanscher (someone who sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad to be rid of the Free Democrats. "With the F.D.P. you can count on one thing: their lack of character," he declared. "If they were stupid but still loyal, that would be worse for us, but they were unreliable as well...