Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Buchwald established himself as the great humorist-tour guide of the old New York Herald Tribune, he wrote a parody of Hemingway's novel Across the River and into the Trees, and Hemingway, in a letter to a friend, called Buchwald "a smart-assed son of a bitch...
...stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were exactly as they were depicted in the magazines and movies...honking taxis, street vendors selling dirty pictures, roses, oriental rugs..." Buchwald talked his way into a job as a nightclub and film reviewer for the Herald Tribune. His career was launched. Buchwald's recollections of the Trib's scruffy Paris bureau--the sound of the printers singing the Internationale booming up the air shaft, with the editorial staff joining in--are lovely...
...phone calls from President Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will not attend a Middle East summit scheduled to begin later this week. Although the State Department minimized Mubarak's refusal to appear, a cooling in relations with Egypt could spell more trouble for the peace talks, as well as herald a difficult period for U.S. relations in the Middle East. "If Mubarak had gone to Washington, it would have implied a certain confidence in the peace talks," says TIME's Scot MacLeod. "But his refusal means he is concerned a summit that makes no substantial concessions for the Palestinians will...
...comparison, I looked at the coverage in The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. The Globe ran a more innocuous title and first line: "Rhetoric heats up in Kerry, Weld debate-- In their fifth and most aggressive debate so far, Sen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld made one thing perfectly clear: They disagree about almost everything...
...Herald took a similar stance: "Senate foes clash in bitter showdown--In the most explosive debate of their now-bitter battle, Sen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld fought over everything from taxes and foreign policy to drug addicts and welfare reform last night...