The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
- Iron Curtain Award
- Tax Fairness Award
- Gas Lines Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Ecological Panic
- Good Morning Morons
- Most Honest Confession
- Gorebasm Award
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Tax Advocacy Award
- Media Hero Abroad
- Media Hero At Home
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Reagan Legacy
- Domestic Affairs
- Joe Isuzu Award
- Gennadi Gerasimov
- Foreign Affairs
- Silliest Analysis
- Quote of the Year
Which Way Is It? Foreign Affairs
"Attempting
to defect will no longer be a severely punishable offense, but will be
known as ‘border trespass,’ subject only to a minor penalty. And the
death penalty, now applied to 34 offenses, will be retained only for
those that involve direct ‘betrayal’ of the communist state and the
social order."
-- Christian Science Monitor correspondent Eric Bourne, September 12.
vs.
"A reminder from Eastern Europe today that not
all has changed. In Albania today, border guards shot and killed a
four-year-old girl when they opened fire on a group of Albanians trying
to cross into Yugoslavia. Albania is the last of the totalitarian states
in Eastern Europe."
-- Peter Jennings on World News Tonight, same day.
Runners-Up:
“Black Nationalist Urges Continued Armed Struggle”
-- Washington Post front page, February 12
vs.
“Mandela Poised to Take Role of Conciliator”
-- same newspaper front page, same day
“Moscow protesters call for Gorbachev to quit”
-- Boston Herald, September 17
vs.
“Ryzhkov urged to resign at pro-Gorbachev rally”
-- Boston Globe, same day
