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...Great Hall of the People, came away convinced that China's Premier was "one of the most intelligent men I've ever met." For decades, he enjoyed instructing Westerners in the intricacies of Chinese politics. Recalls Author Theodore H. White, who knew Chou in the 1940s: "The greatest compliment he could pay anyone was to say, 'Aha! At last you're beginning to understand China.'" Unlike Mao, Chou was not a theoretician, but rather a kind of inspired pragmatist?"a builder, not a poet," as his old friend Journalist Edgar Snow put it. Nevertheless, he was a supporter of certain...
John F. Kennedy surprised her with his unpresidential boyishness. Charles de Gaulle, she remembers, paid her an un precedented compliment at Kennedy's funeral by starting a conversation in English. John Foster Dulles was "that cold gray man obsessed with his own brinkmanship." Her associates get little more charity: Ben-Gurion is recalled as "not a man to whom one could be close...
...Another takes a more show business view of the situation: "Let's face it, she's box office. Sarah is the Luis Tiant of opera." Sarah, who likes the roar of the crowd as much as any athlete and loves baseball, might just take that as a compliment...
...Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence that there may be larger ones...
...fact, Mc loone is currently an entertainer. He plays the piano for a living, and he remembers his former coach fondly. Admitting to his obesity as a freshman, McLoone returned the compliment in kind...