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...dinner was partly a cover to allow more than 100 guests to slip into the White House for a surprise party that Ford had engineered, with great delight, for his wife. It was their last evening of dancing in the marble foyer. It was merry but laced with nostalgia...
...survived the headaches of the New York premiere, lie packed off with Weight Lifter Schwarzenegger and a few hefty friends for an early-morning dinner at Elaine's. When the meal was over, someone noticed that half the guests had ordered the same fare-mussels. Gasped Zarem in delight: "I didn't even plan...
...spoke last week's mysterious prisoner of Paris in an interview on Jordanian television in 1973. The broadcast was an intelligence officer's delight. Abu Daoud, who had been captured by the Jordanians after attempting to infiltrate Amman at the head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release...
...Maryinsky Theater in old St. Petersburg, Russia, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky thought that Nutcracker was much inferior to his The Sleeping Beauty. "Yes, the old fellow is getting worn out," he concluded. Tchaikovsky was one of music's great pessimists. The score is an indestructible delight. Over the years Nutcracker has probably played to more children, parents and lovers of both dance and make-believe than any other ballet in history...
Status Pole. In this mood, Wolfe can delight and instruct. But he omits the possibility that people can dress or act for reasons that have nothing to do with climbing or sliding down the status pole. Altruism, love and compassion seem excluded by his highly stylized determinism. Those who dismiss Wolfe do so at just this point. If he were sent to cover the Crimean War, would he not send back a dispatch describing Florence Nightingale's uniform...