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There is a small but durable group of people in Washington who remember the night of Oct. 4, 1957. The city changed-and the world too. At the Soviet embassy on 16th Street that evening, about 50 scientists from 13 nations, members of the International Geophysical Year rocket and satellite...
Animals feed; humans eat. And the process of eating defines cultures and personalities. As the late Peter Farb and his collaborator George Armelagos indicate, "Food and drink have such intense emotional significance that they are often linked with events that have nothing to do with nutrition. The perpetrators of the...
The fans were aghast at McEnroe's behavior; they cheered the lifeguard when he ordered the American to return to the court. The next day papers stuck on him, not for the first time, the worst of tennis epithets: "Brat." Even Mr. Connors, who probably tortures insects in his spare...
After a 45-min. cocktail reception, he spoke for an hour at the dinner to 400 people, two-thirds of them black. His speech was urgent but hardly incendiary. Said he: "The economy is in trouble, democracy is in trouble and we seem lost at sea without a leader." After...
Unlike Oliver and Jenny Barrett, who were nearly perfect, Segal has wilted under Mammon's gaze and added Oliver's Story to the screenplay-novel genre. And now comes Man, Woman and Child, the kind of novel a writer produces only thrice in a lifetime, a literary tortilla, a hardcover...