Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scarcely two months have passed since Henry Kissinger paid his fourth postwar visit to the Middle East. Yet this week as the Secretary of State-accompanied by Bride Nancy Maginnes Kissinger-arrives for a fifth visit, he will find enough great changes to astound even a normally unflappable diplomat. Among the transitions since March...
...that amorphous elite loosely known as the Eastern establishment. A graduate of Princeton circa 1960 and a holder of a gentlemanly undistinguished degree from Cambridge, Adams has also served in Viet Nam as an Army officer with a certain detached distaste. Both he and his wife Marjorie, a diplomat's daughter from north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere...
...Jersey, and the music, at least the best of it, is suitable raucous and scruffy. Unlike his first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, where the descriptions bristled with enough Dylanesque alliteration to make them look like typing exercises ("Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat"), on E Street Springsteen works with an easy, economical sense of concreteness and colloquial ambience. He talks normal, only we should talk so good. The "E Street Shuffle" itself is a literal evocation of street-corner cacaphony, in which "Little Angel steps the shuffle like...
...consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most common forms are electric shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something to do with that plot...
...lesser characters, the four guests all do a creditable job, particularly Alden Watson as Richard Greatham. His style of controlled bewilderment and priggish dismay enlivens the potentially flat role of the conservative diplomat. Jill Abramson vamps madly in her part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after...