Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...17th century Wilanow Palace outside Warsaw, the Carters flew to Tehran. When Air Force One rolled to a stop at Mehrabad Airport, Carter was the first person to pop out of the door, his tan trenchcoat and slightly disheveled appearance contrasting a bit with the regal elegance of his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. On the way to the city, they drove along roads that were lined with more security men than well-wishers. Only a few hours earlier there had been five anti-American demonstrations...
...that "today is President Sadat's [59th] birthday. Let me congratulate you, and may God give you many years to live until 120." Sadat looked puzzled, so Begin explained that "until 120" was a traditional Jewish blessing for long life.* Begin was effusive in his praise of his host. "We all have deep admiration for you and your leadership," he exclaimed. "We all need you and your leadership. Egypt needs you; the Middle East needs you; the world needs you; and even we need...
...clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury: "He came in costume, all right. He came dressed as Arthur Burns...
...came out of that closet one night, when he bounced onto Merv Griffin's TV show to make "a terrific major announcement" about his Dan August series. "Oh, that's great," his host encouraged. "Yeah, I've just been canceled," said Burt, chortling merrily and adding that he now had the distinction of having been canceled at one time or another by all three of the TV networks. "I thought?and it was very calculating?that I could get on television and say, 'Hey, my last picture was a turkey,' and people would find it funny...
...ploy worked, and talk-show fans began perceiving Reynolds as "a man smarter than the roles he played." Soon Johnny Carson started asking Reynolds to fill in as host of the Tonight Show. Even the infamous nude centerfold photo in Cosmo was intended as a put-on, a satirical thrust at the whole institution of centerfolds and a self-parody of his own growing macho image. That gambit may have worked a little too well. The magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold...