Word: canalization
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...decamped from its mountain fastness in Davos, Switzerland, for the charms of midtown Manhattan, where the movers and shakers will discuss the state of the world and glide from one party to another. I'd bet a trayful of caviar canapes that none of them will make it to Canal Street. Too bad; they could learn more there than they ever will in the Waldorf-Astoria...
DIED. DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
...according to Committee Member Nancy Walser, Segat was having a root canal...
...when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots to uncouple Panama from Colombia--so that the U.S. could have a freer hand to build its great canal across the isthmus--Morris is not bending to the presidential lunch table to serve the soup and listen in. When T.R. holds forth at some White House reception, Morris doesn't flutter past in a bustle and bonnet, taking surreptitious notes...
...solitary child--her father distant, her severe mother dead--Amelie amused herself with hand puppets; her playmates are things. Now grown-up, a waitress, she seeks sensuous, not sensual, pleasures: cracking the shell of a creme brulee, skipping stones in the local canal. Her life changes on Aug. 31, 1997, with the news of Princess Diana's death. In surprise she drops a perfume stopper, which rolls toward the wall; behind a loose brick she discovers something else, a boy's prized chest of trinkets, 40 years old. She resolves to find out who the owner is. She gets...