Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quietly to find a buyer who would keep the remaining 240 works together. They found him nearby. Leonard E.B. Andrews, a Dallas-born publisher of 19 newsletters, including the National Bankruptcy Report and the Swine Flu Claim & Litigation Reporter, had a house in Newtown Square, Pa., had occasionally had dinner with the Wyeths, and already owned six of his works. After spending two hours with the collection, Andrews agreed to pay a multimillion-dollar sum for all of them and their copyrights. Not previously known as a major collector, he plans to lend the Helgas to museums...
...potent appeal of each was on display last week. Jackson, 44, gave an uncompromising keynote at the annual convention of Operation PUSH, the civil rights group he founded 15 years ago, a day after playing host at a dinner for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Robertson proved in Tuesday's Michigan primaries that he can turn his faithful flock into grass-roots political organizers and then headed off to Iowa, where the first real presidential caucus will be held almost 18 months from now. In the long run Jackson is likely to wield more clout. One reason: he can make...
...everything. In a speech last week he pledged to "study and master Soviet-American relations." His positions in many cases are the exact reverse of Robertson's. While Robertson advocates that the U.S. recognize the Nicaraguan contras as a government in exile, Jackson invited the Sandinista leader to dinner at his home in Chicago and some "backyard diplomacy" under a basketball hoop. Earlier, Jackson participated in drafting a statement that Ortega read to a PUSH meeting, pledging efforts to ease friction with both the Roman Catholic Church...
...board and off, the good-natured interchange persisted. Take a Soviet by the arm, bring him or her to a quiet corner and ask whatever burning question comes to mind. No problem. Have a drink together, or dinner; go on deck in the evening and talk about literature or politics, as the light fades and the densely wooded banks of the river grow dark and eerie. One night, somewhere between Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, Dmitri Agrachev, the cruise's official Soviet interpreter, was playing Scrabble, in English, with three Americans. "It's not a very nice word...
...settings of Regrets Only--a major Washington newsroom, high-powered dinner parties--are unmistakably Sally Quinn's turf. Hostesses are grasping, Senators calculating, and just about everybody randy. "It's a novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn...