Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After teetering on the brink throughout the play, neurosis becomes psychosis, and the characters' stereotyped personalities are shattered. McDade's seemingly whimpering, neurotic housewife turns into a ruse; she stalks in circles around her husband, who is tied to a chair in the middle of their parlor. "Come on, cut me loose," he says, as she alternately cackles and cries, gripping her dagger and trembling badly...
...degree of Israeli withdrawal. To try to achieve some movement on these issues, Vance announced that State Department Troubleshooter Alfred Atherton Jr. will travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Israel this week to lay the groundwork for more talks. Vance himself will return to the Middle East to chair another meeting between the Israelis and the Egyptians in early August. Washington hopes to synthesize the positions of the two sides and broaden the next session to include defense and legal experts who could then carry the talks on into the details of withdrawal, new borders and security guarantees...
...learned, in prose and tone that often seemed straight from a Monty Python satiric sketch, that Les ley Brown is a pretty woman of 5 ft. 5 in., who wears her brownish hair in a pageboy cut. In her turquoise-blue hospital room, she often lounges in an easy chair, wearing a brown-and-white bell-sleeved housecoat. She spends much of her time making telephone calls, doing puzzles, knitting, nibbling on mints and eating ordinary hospital food (a typical lunch: steak and kidney pie with mashed potatoes, followed by fruit tart). Occasionally, added the Evening Chronicle, she has become...
...American artist trying hard to keep growing. Eternity came breathing down his back four months ago in the form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
...dark office, Chiang sat in his high-backed chair, listening to me with visible distaste because his meddling sister-m-law insisted he had to. I talked of the dying; then of the taxes; then of the extortions. It was obvious he did not know what was going on. I tried to break through by telling him about the cannibalism. He said that cannibalism in China was impossible I said that I had seen dogs eating people on the roads. He said that was impossible. But there I had him. I had asked Harrison Forman to accompany me to Chiang...