Word: barest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie and Bill are creatures of the present. We know nothing of their pasts and only the barest outlines of their futures. Bill is separated from his wife, but the details of the breakup remain unknown. He is the editor of a magazine, but the nature of the magazine and the work he does for it remain opaque. We see the women Charlie lives with, but how he came to do so, and what their relationship is, we are never told. As far as we can make out, Charlie has no profession, and all his time is spent gambling...
Shantytown refugee camps have risen like festering sores throughout the region, providing the barest relief to half a million people. Their individual monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from...
...HIGH SPOTS of the book are the interviews. Shenker's interviewing technique is to keep his presence to a minimum, leaving description at the barest essentials and letting his subjects speak for themselves. Many of the conversations are really just strings of quotations, supplemented only by some remarkably vivid photographs by Jill Krementz. This approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam...
...first in Britain since 1970. What with oil shortages, I.R.A. terror bombings in London and the reduced coal production, Britons had a pretty dreary Christmas this year. Heath tried to inspire the electorate with speeches reminiscent of Churchill's inflated World War II rhetoric, but only with the barest success. The coal miners's strike now threatens England with a depression unparalleled in the last 40 years, and that's a fact that no politician's over-blown speeches can obscure...
Ziegler is not only Nixon's window on the world, he is the aide more responsible than anyone-Laird, Harlow or any of the lawyers-for shaping the President's Watergate policy. Ziegler is a hardliner, urging the President to keep his cooperation and disclosures to the barest minimum as he deals with his adversaries in the courts and Congress. The release last week of the President's incomplete and undocumented statements on the milk fund and ITT was planned by Ziegler...