Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighbors. Their houses are undoubtedly fine and big, but they seem rather small-time from this inflated perspective. The estate encompasses some two or three city blocks. In front of the house is a huge lawn, bissected by the long, tree-lined driveway. On one side is a 5-car garage with a house on top, and on the other is a tennis court. Behind the house is another lawn, a garden, a sunken green house, a platform tennis court, an empty white swimming pool, a huge sandbox and playground and an old apple orchard. I return to the house...
Just trying to explain the plot of Gondollers, this season's Gilbert and Sullivan production, might have passed the time on that six-hour car trip to New York last weekend better than playing Botticelli. Gondoliers begins simply enough: two Venetian gondolier brothers fall in love with and marry two peasant girls. But then the trouble starts. One of these brothers turns out to be the long-lost king of Barataria, but good Venetian egalitarians that they are, neither of the supposed brothers wants to be the ruler or knows which actually is. All of which gives them good...
...brashness, Gur was reprimanded by Weizman (who later in the week was hospitalized with a broken ankle and bruises following a car accident). Top Israeli intelligence officials, however, shared Gur's concerns. They believe that Egypt has rebuilt fortifications and constructed new minefields in Sinai, stepped up military maneuvers across the Suez Canal, and carried out major exercises with the Russian-made SAM7 Strella missiles. In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials discounted the maneuver reports as "nothing new," and insisted that there had been no serious violations of the second Sinai accord reported by United Nations observers in the area...
...might well have tried to head off a great deal of fruitless inquiry. Dame Agatha's first husband had asked her for a divorce so that he could marry a younger woman. This was unthinkable, and to her unending regret, she did the unthinkable in return. Abandoning her car a few miles from home, she vanished. Following a massive man hunt and nearly two weeks' worth of headlines, she was discovered in a small Yorkshire hotel, registered in the name of her husband's new love. She said she had no memory...
...years. She plunges into vivid accounts of coconut shies and garden parties, the technique of hat painting and cheating on one's dance card. In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph of Dame Agatha's worst prose extolling...