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Over Chinese seed cake and tea, the two men talked through an interpreter for 50 minutes. They did not discuss any substantive issues, but they set up arrangements for the next meeting, which will probably be held in the U.S. embassy. At the close of the visit, Huang escorted Watson back to his car. Watson in turn called Huang "cher ami," and told newsmen, "We had a very warm and friendly discussion, and we hope it is the beginning of many others...
...Gurley Brown told Cosmopolitan readers: "You've got to make yourself more cupcakeable all the time so that you're a better cupcake to be gobbled up." Meanwhile Hugh Hefner was giving Playboy readers lessons on how to lick off the frosting without actually paying for that cake. Like silent partners, Brown and Hefner-Miss Cupcake and Mr. Sweet Tooth-shared the profits of the sexual revolution* while remaining happily oblivious to the militant feminism that arrived in its wake...
...reversing history, of turning it all around in a way that would work. Moreover, much as she loathes much of Women's Work, she likes some of it too, reactionary as it seems. And she isn't someone who thinks she can have her cake and eat it too. On the contrary, she knows all too well that everything in this world has its price. If she's ready to break the commitment, then she has to pay that price. Actually," this constant self-evaluation, this weighing of prices to be paid for one thing or another...
...after eight years of work to provide a railroad link over the Yangtze River between North and South China-is a national shrine and a political rallying point for the Maoist line. It is storied in song and film and pictured on thermos flasks, postcards, beer bottles, matchboxes and cake cartons. On either side, the approach roadway is two miles long; at each end of the span rise two 70-ft. rose-colored towers. An exhibition hall in one of the bridge towers features a 20-ft. white statue of Mao; his poems are engraved in marble on the walls...
...Rock apparently aimed to be the caper movie to end them all. Unfortunately, it probably won't. William Goldman has transferred the patty-cake banter of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to contemporary New York City, where he unleashes a quartet of schlemiel heist men (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand). Their task is to lift a gem called the Sahara stone and turn it over to the pompous African diplomat (Moses Gunn) who contracted for the job. They go to a lot of elaborate trouble to break into places. The gimmick is that...