Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THREE POSTCARDS A delicately surreal play with music bringing together three women for a dinner that yields expected revelations in unexpected ways. From South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, Calif., an unlikely but thriving venue for new work...
...President and his wife issued a statement saying they were "sorry" about Deaver's conviction. But when Nancy Reagan was asked whether the Deavers would be invited to Christmas dinner at the White House this year as usual, her eyes widened, her features twisted into a grimace, and she answered, quietly but firmly...
...never seen a dinner take off like this one," marveled Graber. "I was stunned by how much that evening moved me," said former Democratic Party Chairman Robert Strauss, who sat across from Nancy and Gorbachev. "I've only felt it once before, at the dinner for Sadat and Begin...
...moment between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on the morning after they signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little study next to the Oval Office and produced a baseball that Joe DiMaggio had hoped to have autographed by Gorbachev at the state dinner the night before. Reagan was not just fulfilling the old Yankee slugger's request. He had a metaphor in mind. Are we, he asked, going to play ball? Yes, Gorbachev firmly agreed. Then the two men rejoined their top aides in the Oval Office for a critical hour-long bargaining...
...American people. From his Monday afternoon arrival at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base to his rainy Thursday night departure, the General Secretary seemed to be leading a full-court media blitz. He unfailingly turned on the charm in his public appearances, such as Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House, where he and Wife Raisa joined Pianist Van Cliburn in singing Moscow Nights. Later in the week he stopped his motorcade on Connecticut Avenue to hop out and press the flesh with passersby. Gushed one thrilled bystander: "It was like the coming of the second Messiah...