Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First prize went to Fred Gold en for his Sept. 4, 1978, story...
Last week, sitting in his long, gold-carpeted office overlooking the Capitol, Schlesinger stoutly rejected criticism of his performance. He had his familiar rumpled look, shirttail out, socks limp over his ankles, but as he got up to stand by the window, his tall, flat body looked powerful. "It's convenient to make me the fall guy," he said sourly. Close friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger...
Exactly which President is this? Why, he is a character in a forthcoming novel, Good as Gold (Simon & Schuster; $12.95), in which Joseph Heller does for Washington, D.C., what he did for the military in Catch-22. This time Heller's hero is Bruce Gold, a Jewish writer from Manhattan's Upper West Side, who hopes to get away from his Portnoy-esque family to be a "high Government official," even though to do so he may have to get a "better" wife. "Belle would be O.K. for Labor or Agriculture," someone advises Gold, "but not for Secretary...
...collection, to be displayed in its entirety next month in Peking and Shanghai, ranges from garments with thigh-high slits and see-through torsos to dresses and coats with overstuffed "pagoda" shoulders and gold kimono jackets worn over tight silk pants. The designer, who has spent four years plotting the Cardinization of Cathay, makes abundant use of the country's magnificent silks and cashmeres but yields nothing to Maonotony. "Vroom!" he cries. "It's the shock that will be interesting. Why should I copy Mao collars when what they want is dresses from Paris? The Chinese have lost...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...