Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessmen are judging Carter too quickly. Says he: "It's almost as if he were being photographed every 15 minutes to see if he's aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter's preachy moralism, nonetheless gives the President high marks on one subject: "On international economic issues, Carter is dead right. There is no ambiguity about where Carter, [Chief Trade Negotiator Robert] Strauss and Blumenthal stand. They...
Rostropovich has a distinctly colloquial talent for giving instructions to the orchestra. For a crisp pizzicato, he says: "I want hear champagne corks popping." For a soft passage: "Before the sound is coming, smell some bee-oo-tee-fool flowers." For a lyrical passage: "You don't say 'I LOFF YOU!' You whisper [cuddling an imaginary violin] 'I LOFF YOU.' " For a subito forte (to play suddenly loud): "Imagine you with your girl friend. Suddenly your wife come into room. That is subito forte...
...fired the scrolls of Alexandria To warm the waters of the public baths...". John Wheelwright. "To Wise Men on the Death of a Fool...
...jokes flop, about the ridiculous price of admission, and about how ludicrous the comedian's job is. Lenny Bruce wove his life into the bits he performed for nightclub audiences; Steve Martin (one must assume) leaves his real life behind when he goes onstage to make a fool of himself for the audience's benefit...
...also introduced a secret computer system to ferret out even "sleepers" and "moles"-deep-cover agents whose meticulous disguises are planned for long-term use. So far, 30 East German spies have been bagged this year. Says an admiring U.S. intelligence officer in Bonn: "Mischa, who's no fool, has met his match in Meier...