Word: bed
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...President Ford Committee bought the air time, for $86,000, because the speech was delivered at 10:30 p.m. in Kansas City?a time when untold millions in such pivotal Eastern states as Pennsylvania (27 electoral votes) and New York (41) had already gone to bed. Then, staying in Washington and acting "presidential"?a major theme of his campaign?Ford will address the B'nai B'rith convention, a speech that will be closely studied by key Jewish leaders. Ford will also meet with the same Roman Catholic bishops who last week got into yet another squabble with Carter...
Similar stories appear every month-and on glossier pages. Yet Novelist Brian Moore, 54, turns a potential stale helping of white wine and sympathy into an enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner...
Harry Crosby, a wealthy Bostonian of good family and, from his relatives' point of view, regrettable literary pretensions, painted his toenails red one December afternoon in 1929 in a Manhattan apartment he had borrowed from an artist friend. He lounged in bed a while, swigging Scotch companionably with his mistress, Josephine Rotch Bigelow, a beautiful young married woman from another prominent Back Bay clan. Then, apparently with her enthusiastic approval, and in the best of moods, he killed her with a pistol, and a couple of hours later shot himself. The soles of his feet were found...
...others, lies at the heart of The Farewell Party. The novel's setting is a government health spa in an unnamed Eastern European socialist country. The spa caters to women who have fertility problems. A young nurse named Ruzena has no such difficulties. Only one time in bed with a famous touring trumpeter named Klima is enough to leave her pregnant. Klima has all but forgotten Ruzena when she calls some months later with the news. He returns to the fertility spa to try to convince her that she should have an abortion...
...bed, plus some hot packs and massage for her ailing back, was enough to put First Lady Betty Ford back on her feet and on her way to New York last week. The occasion: the start of a two-week tribute to Composer Duke Ellington by the Alvin Ailey modern dance company. Ford, who once studied with Martha Graham, may have lost a few moves over the years, but obviously none of her enthusiasm. Backstage the First Lady partnered with Dancer Judith Jamison for a few smooth steps, then confided: "I still practice my ballet exercises in a large bathroom...