Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Haven, Conn...
...week on both sides of the Pacific, there were signs that the chill in Washington-Tokyo relations caused by the U.S.'s chronic and massive trade deficit with Japan was beginning to dissipate. Said Mike Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador to Japan: "It's been a good summer. I haven't heard the word protectionism for months." By contrast, he said, the previous two years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee...
...feet that skitter like a sandpiper's. When he beams, the sun comes out. When he is troubled, the sky falls on Chicken Little. And when he leers, he is the naughtiest boy in class. Class is also the word for his partner and costar, Ann Miller. When haven't we missed her long, lithesome legs? The years have left them far sounder than most currencies. Her taps are tops, routines done with effortless style and sophisticated rhythms. Do we miss burlesque, which forms the substance of Sugar Babies (if sheer fluff has substance)? Not so much, admittedly...
...passionate and inspiring as her novel is, Gordimer emphasizes that the way Rosa chooses is not necessarily hers. "I haven't got the Rosa kind of commitment--it would be terrible to let you think that of me. It's kind of a holy mystery to me, that commitment. What makes them absolutely sure they couldn't live any other...
...cannot supply them with either a job or a home, then what are you doing? You are creating a really bad situation. In the city they cannot even plant vegetables to eat. At least in the rural parts they have more to live off of if they haven't got a job. In the city you get an awful slum condition...