Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farewell ceremonies on the south lawn, both Begin and Carter looked grim, fatigued and discouraged. The polite code words conveyed the lack of progress. Carter described the talks as "detailed and frank"-which is the diplomat's way of saying they were contentious. He avoided even the pro forma declaration that they had been "productive." He offered an ostensibly friendly observation: "The Israel of 1978 is strong and more secure militarily than at any time in its history. We in America take satisfaction in the knowledge that we have contributed in some small measure to the realization of that...
There are some artists whose precocity almost seems a curse, and one of them is Frank Stella, a wiry, taciturn American of Sicilian descent who turns 42 next month but whose work must seem (to younger painters) to have been around forever. For ten years, from the moment in 1960 when his black pinstripe paintings were exhibited at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery, Stella's work was one of the main points around which the critical debates of that logorrheic decade precipitated themselves...
...private study to share the good news. Later, Treaty Co-Negotiator Sol Linowitz arrived. Carter, who had been watching his own TV, was beaming more broadly than anyone could remember for a long time. The President got on the phone to praise his often criticized Capitol Hill man, Frank Moore, who was proclaimed the "real hero of this thing...
...Here we go again," sighed Frank Vahaly, 36, a coal miner in Bentleyville, Pa. His skepticism was echoed throughout the strikebound coal fields last week as negotiators for the miners and operators reached yet another tentative contract agreement-the third in the 14-week coal strike...
...countering 60 Minutes and 20/20 by carving out a weeknight time slot this fall for its 3½-year-old monthly magazine now called Weekend, an eclectic mix of investigative and lighthearted reports. Executive Producer Reuven Frank is casting for someone to share the increased work load with Writer-Reporter Lloyd Dobyns but otherwise plans no major changes. Says Frank: "Carbon copies don't work." One Weekend feature that will have to change when the show goes midweekly is the name. Says an executive who has survived a wave of demoralizing layoffs at NBC: "Knowing the way our company...