Word: buchwald
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...forever telling them ((local officials)) to go forward," says the fictional letter to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "but you never explain which way is forward. They themselves have no idea." That jest might not earn so much as a chuckle in a Johnny Carson monologue or an Art Buchwald column, but in the Soviet Union, where satirizing state officials can be harmful to one's health, the letter is a comedic landmark of sorts. Its appearance in the March issue of Theater, a glossy literary monthly, may mark the first time | that the name of a sitting Soviet leader...
What does Art Buchwald have in common with Leo Tolstoy? Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Mary McCarthy? Not to mention Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Tarzan, Superman and Little Orphan Annie. Right: they all lost parents at an early age and had to confront the world more or less on their...
...There's a word that brings us all together here tonight," Humorist Art Buchwald informed the black-tie crowd at Washington's Departmental Auditorium last week, "and that word is fear." Perhaps, but for most of the capital's movers and shakers, the scariest thing about Katharine Graham's 70th-birthday ; bash was not the long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy...
...that are regularly excerpted for Ronald Reagan's daily news briefing book. Chief of Staff Howard Baker has noted that both the Times and the Washington Post are "required reading" at the White House, joking that "one of them is read for the news and the other for Art Buchwald...
...great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle ("It's a great day for Paris"). Buchwald noted that the presidency always provides good material. "Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test...