Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, however, she was reported to be in the cardiac unit of the Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Center in Denver. Clearly Mrs. Beard, a divorcee of 53 with five children, and one of Washington's more colorful lobbyists, holds the key to many of the uncertainties surrounding the ITT affair...
...lonely arrival. One probably will never know if Richard Nixon expected such a soundless, emotionless affair. After the storm of publicity in the U.S., all the smells and sounds of power that have gone with the presidency to produce this event, the few minutes in the weak sun of a clear China morning are - well, perhaps they are pure Chinese. Think of the great entries of other journeys. Cheering, shouting, jumping, massed hundreds of thousands. Nixon in Mexico, in Rumania, in Yugoslavia. Great sounds swelled then over the President and he glowed, measuring the effects. But the most momentous journey...
...Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right, and gave the whole affair that touch of verisimilitude that makes the fantastic real...
...ARNHEITER AFFAIR by NEIL SHEEHAN 304 pages. Random House...
...fact, I suspect that lyricist Barry Harman and composer Norman Siegel are only using the hoary old conventions of Pudding shows past (as well as the Theatricals' impressive $70,000 budget) to act out their own love affair with musical comedy. Siegel has come up with a nicely eclectic score--from a very G&S number like "Establishment" to a first act curtain entitled "Glory" that is straight out of Dolly or Mame. Harman's lyrics are generally up to the same par, although one or two ("Remember the Mania," "Sit Down and Take a Stand") seemed...