Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific panel says it is calories that really count...
...final count isn't in yet, but some medals won't mean much...
...accurate count of who will attend may thus not be available for weeks. The I.O.C. released figures last week indicating that 85 nations will send teams to Moscow, 26 will not, and 31 are undecided. Those numbers were dismissed as "clearly wrong" by White House Counsel and Boycott Coordinator Lloyd Cutler. The White House scorecard, which tallies only non-Soviet bloc countries, named 60 no-shows, 80 attendees, and five countries whose intentions are unknown. Said Cutler: "There is no way the Soviets can portray either that the whole world is coming to Moscow and supports the Soviet position...
...former days, any President had to assume some partisanly hostile reporting. But he could also count on writers who out of conviction or self-interest hastened to defend him and could be rewarded with inside tips or White House favors. For a variety of reasons, there's much less of that kind of exchange these days. The interesting phenomenon is that Washington commentators sympathetic to Carter became disillusioned with him before much of the rest of the country did. Was this a case of claustrophobic Potomac groupthink or of closer knowledge? Some of both. Reporters recognized Carter...
...friendships, though ardent, usually ended in disappointment. The philosopher Count Hermann von Keyserling begged her to marry him, but she danced mockingly out of reach. The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who saw in her "something of a lascivious young god in girl's clothes," confessed she caused him "a mysterious and sometimes very painful feeling of needing." Proust, Montesquiou, Rodin, Rilke, Giraudoux and George Moore were all bewildered or enslaved...