Word: conspiratorally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It comes stealing up on us first in the wide eyes of very young children, who see Christmas shining a long way off. Older brothers and sisters are more nonchalant; they can be downright businesslike about it. A camera would be O.K., but how about a snowmobile? As the day...
Le Duc Tho refused to go ahead. He did not negotiate; he simply read me the formal North Vietnamese position, publicly available for months. There was no point in continuing the meeting. Le Duc Tho was not even stalling; he was laying down terms. As I got up to leave...
Walter F. Starbuck, Vonnegut's hero and narrator, keeps getting his life sidetracked by great wealth. The son of immigrant servants, he was informally adopted by his parents' millionaire employer, raised as a gentleman and sent off to Harvard. In his early 60s, after an on-and-off...
The costumes reflect today's world. Some of the young citizens carry portable radios. The conspirator Cinna comes in from the rainstorm with a wet umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters...
MARRIED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, Richard Nixon's domestic affairs chief and Watergate conspirator; and Christine Peacock McLaurine, 30, interior designer; both for the second time; in Staten Island, N.Y. Ehrlichman, divorced only last month, met his new wife eight months ago in a Manhattan furniture store, where she...