Word: chats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Problems of state? Not at all, as Queen Elizabeth II, on the first leg of her three-week tour of Arab Gulf states, paused to chat with the Emir of Bahrain, Sheik Isa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...second play fares much better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches...
...near-impossible--he holds an audience's attention, alone, for some two and one-half hours. As a stage presence he has many gifts: a well-controlled and expressive singing voice, grace as a dancer, and the knack of an accomplished professional. He knows when to smile, when to chat with the audience, when to casually sling his jacket over his shoulder--and all this helps. But above all, he knows how to make you feel he actually believes his message; perhaps, and this would be a rarity, he actually does...
...population consists of military personnel, civilians resent the fact that plumbing is only available in government housing. Merchants who accept a Pakistani soldier's money often ignore his attempts at conversation. Befriending a government trooper brings with it the risk of being branded a kasa chat (ass kisser...
With that, the odds for a Carter-Brezhnev summit this month dropped to zero. Said the President during a Christmas-morning chat with newsmen in Plains, Ga.: "We have an excellent chance of a fairly early meeting between myself and President Brezhnev. My guess is, though, that it will not be in January." Carter then added: "I think we will have the SALT agreement. It just takes time...