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...warm memory of his days in Washington begins to fade under the pressures at home, he can at least take some comfort from the fact that the cozy pictures with President Reagan will not have done him any harm in terms of Australian politics." Hawke's domestic political honeymoon is almost certainly ending. But his world trip allowed him to demonstrate a confidence, intelligence and friendly manner that consistently impressed foreign leaders-and should come in handy in the political rough-and-tumble ahead...
...regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal elections, to the delight of Prime Minister Felipe González, who likes to say that "Spain is calm, calmer than at any time since the death of General Franco." The political honeymoon still lasts, and when the boyish 41-year-old Socialist leader flies to Washington next week on his first official visit to the U.S., he will inevitably reflect the buoyant national mood. For Spaniards, González is, above all, living proof that after only five years of self-conscious democracy, Spain...
...plot line is as simple as sin. Previously wed to each other, Amanda (Taylor) and Elyot (Burton) meet again on the terrace of a seaside resort in France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...
Five years before Elyot meets the disagreeing Sybil, and before Private Lives begins, Elyot and Amanda divorce. As the play opens, the two are newly remarried, he to Sybil (Katryn Walker), she to Victor Prynne (John Cullum). Embarrassingly enough, both couples honeymoon in Deauville. Worse yet, their respective suites share a balcony. But Elyot is as unsuited for the flighty, girlish Sybil as Amanda is for the formal, gentlemanly Victor. While Amanda and Elyot rediscover their old love. Coward argues, always humorously, that passion often blends both tenderness and hostility. And the tender and hostile moments in the Private Lives...
...Carter had been reelected, he might have been able to use his second honeymoon with Congress to get SALT II ratified, but he would have been under powerful pressure to begin SALT Ill with a tough proposal that had strings attached to Soviet behavior and was accompanied by major defense programs...