Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canzeri, a former presidential scheduler who now runs a public relations concern. Delayed slightly by the Washington Redskins' 29-27 win over the St. Louis Cardinals (occasionally even power rituals are only the second most interesting game in town), Canzeri's Venetian-style Christmas fete attracted a classic "interesting Washington mix": diplomats (Nepalese Ambassador Bhekh Thapa), members of Congress (Senators John Tower and Sam Nunn), name journalists (Columnist Mary McGrory), plus the Reaganaut social front line (Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and Wife Ursula, along with Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and Wife Carolyn). The White House group...
Dawit's musings infuriated M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
Paul Creswick's 1902 classic Robin Hood (Scribners; $18.95) is written in 19th century baroque: "You shall pay no more than ten pieces of gold for your entertainment, excellence," decreed Robin. "Speak I soothly, men of the greenwood?" But it is N.C. Wyeth's 1917 illustrations that carry the day. Each of them has the sweep and drama of unabashed romanticism; a score of movies have tumbled from these portraits of Robin, Little John and Maid Marian. And there have been even more literary spinoffs. Surely this is not the last of the retellings; it is merely...
...rumpled-up bed by a woman who has missed an entire night's sleep and is still bright-eyed. When I Fall in Love is both heartsore and heartfelt, Falling in Love Again a music-box minuet that turns into a full-swing romp, and the classic Billy Strayhorn title cut a cocktail lounge elegy of elegant despair. Barroom or bedroom, Lush Life is right at home...
...pattern that is good for dancing. Indeed, several of the songs are vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath all the precision production and the surgically assured musicianship are messages of lyrical turbulence, full of fleet, elusive imagery that hangs in the air like a haunting...