Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting was arranged "through a mutual friend," although it was not planned at the urging of the Harvard 350th anniversary steering committee, said Thomas W. Stephenson '37, the coordinator of the celebration...
...Shwedagon Pagoda, my friend Tom and I were lucky enough to happen on a pwe, one of the Burmese religious festivals that go on all night and all day, held on various special occasions, like weddings. We stood at the door watching as two female dancers in elaborate face make-up and gold-embroidered longgyis danced to the rhythm of traditional wooden Burmese instruments. The dancers were encircled by small children at their feet and adults further back, all squatting on the floor...
...press as much as some of us, and maybe that's wise. But he's brilliant, thoughtful, reasoned and completely unflappable." Poindexter has had some problems dealing with Regan, but so do most White House aides. "You either grovel at Don's feet or have a confrontation," contends a friend of the NSC head. Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, praises Poindexter's work as "absolutely superb" and lauds the fact that "no matter what happens, John just keeps puffing on his pipe. That's something in that...
...fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl changed...
...stared at the window, tapping her heel impatiently as the train came to a stop in between stations. The boy kept jabbing his friend just above his Jams shorts and the elderly man nodded off to sleep. A baby started crying and its mother wiped the perspiration from its brow. Through the thick air, the conductor announced, "We ah experiencing a delay. Sorry for the inconvenience. A train should be along soon to push us to Kendall...