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...Washington, D.C., the wealthy are also cutting corners. One of the most elegant caterers for big-time spenders, Ridgewell's of Bethesda, Md., notes that some gilt-edged customers are "piece-mealing"; they now furnish their own silver, tablecloths and canapes and press their children into service, thus getting by with two waiters instead of four...
...theme of partnership set the tone for the talks between Ford and Tanaka in the ornate gilt, cream and pink marble Rising Sun Room of the Akasaka Palace. Their discussions touched on detente, China, the Middle East and Japanese sensitivities about nuclear weapons but focused principally on energy and food. In the final communique, the two leaders promised that their countries would cooperate on oil policy -an agreement that appeared to override Japan's previous reluctance to act in any way that might offend the Arab oil producers. But the statement did not commit Japan to joining the consumers...
...dying President who kept himself secluded from the public, the French suddenly found Giscard everywhere. He went to a movie with his daughter, took his son to dinner at a small bistro in Les Halles, slipped out of the Elysée Palace ("this prison with its faded gilt," he calls it) to drive his own car to a play. He cut the palace guard from 190 to 120 and added potted orange trees in the courtyard. Instead of the usual beribboned official portrait, he settled for a simple pose in a business suit. More substantially, Giscard has lowered...
Soon after that, he falls in with a cab-driver buddy (Bill Cosby) who suggests that they party it up that night at a gilt-edged fancy house. Now Poitier is basically a nice family man, but his vacation is coming up and he could use a night on the town. The friends arrange to meet at Madam Zenobia's after their wives have gone to bed. They show up, eye the girls, but are robbed, along with everyone else, when four masked men hit the place. The rest of the movie deals with the contortive lengths Cosby...
Shakespeare's instincts played him false. For his pageant is more solid than flesh. It has not faded; the works seem to grow more substantial each year. In the summer of '74, beyond the gilt-edge bindings and Variorum editions, Shakespeare lives in his favorite place-onstage...