Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the Watergate scandal broke open, nearly every morning a precisely attired man walked into Coco's, a restaurant in the rich resort town of Newport Beach, Calif. Sitting down at the same corner table, he picked up the morning newspaper and began sipping his coffee. After a polite pause, he was approached by local businessmen and politicians, who, one by one, stated their business, received their reply, and moved on so the next man could have a chance. The ritual sometimes took as long as 2½ hours...
...interests in Indo china. But the American government was not sensible, it had become locked into its policy, it believed that American prestige--the prestige of the political democracy impossible in Vietnam that it was fighting to impose anyway--was on the line, that victory was just around the corner. The war continued...
...lost cause," the writer said. "They seem to have finally p.r.'d themselves into a corner that they can't p.r. themselves out of. Given his personality and given the amount of evidence that ties him to what's been going on, it seems to me that it's too late for any reselling...
Sitting in a corner, still muttering about the poor organization was "the Rabbit" Nardelli went over to him and gave him a pat on the shoulder...
...suppose, best termed a tragicomedy. But this hybrid is not homogeneous. For all the philosophic insight, the dramaturgy is faulty. The first half of the play shows the stuff of tragedy, although the work contains not a single character of real stature. When Shakespeare boxes himself into a corner half way through, his personages cease to be rounded--if inconsistent--characters; he takes the Duke-Nixon outside the play and turns him into a sort of divine puppeteer who pulls his strings whimsically, and he winds up with an opera buffa finale that is in a different world altogether...