Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time Magazine Reporter: I don't know if the record supports that, but I do know, and I know this for a fact, that it supports the statement that Mr. Ford gets up at sunrise every day to cook his own breakfast. As a matter of fact, last Thursday, the day when Nixon resigned, he got up at 5:30 a.m., came out in blue bathrobe, picked up his Washington Post, and went inside to cook some scrambled eggs for himself and his son Steve...
...after this tidal wave of anecdote are we given any glimpse of Ford's political attitudes, and then it comes in the form of a separate box and provided with less than half the space devoted to his biography. Meanwhile, four pages of color photos depict Gerald Ford eating breakfast with his family, swimming in his pool, making a speech against the backdrop of a tremendous American flag, and relaxing with his wife...
...course, there is also the lunatic fringe. Hard-core addicts are not content merely to enjoy the music; they devote their time and salaries to Beatle trivia. Jeff Symes is a pious Beatle person. He claims everything reminds him of The Beatles: He can't look at breakfast without remembering that the original title of "Yesterday" was "Scrambled Eggs." "My room is four walls of inch to inch Beatles. My Mom won't let me put things on the ceiling yet. Someday, I'll put it all in a museum...
Trial Balloon. It is a measure of the hopelessness of his position in the House that Nixon mulled the idea over and directed speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to loft it as a trial balloon at a breakfast with newsmen. Buchanan obliged, but within hours both the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House made it clear that they would not permit the constitutional proceedings to be short-circuited. Before the end of the day, Buchanan punctured the proposal for good. "The only real advantage was to Republican members of the House," he said, "but they're going to have...
Britain's Michael Moorcock is both bizarrely inventive and highly disciplined as he rockets from blood-and-thunder histrionics to wry social satire in his latest fantasy, Breakfast in the Ruins. In it, Karl Glogauer, a young Englishman, swaps physical and mental identities with a strange African with whom he has a homosexual encounter...