Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meandering public statements on détente, Brezhnev was clearly talking as much to Jimmy Carter as to his host. The French President, who later quoted Brezhnev as having emphasized that U.S.-Soviet relations were "in a difficult phase," answered back on his own. Military détente, he said, must be accompanied by "ideological détente," i.e., a relaxation of non-military tension between East and West -an idea that infuriated Brezhnev during Giscard's 1975 visit to Moscow...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...
...years old, married, a veteran. He and his wife and newborn child lived in a small apartment off Central Square, below street level. There was children's wash hanging in the living room, which was moved for the occasion to the kitchen. Some old furniture. School books. Our host served wine from a huge dusty jug, itself an idiosyncratic and mature thing to be doing in those days. We had dinner, some sort of casserole. Talk. More wine. We listened to our host's Dixieland records. His wife tended the baby, smoked cigarettes, sometimes laughed, looked tall amd tired...
...spectators looking on, an American runner stood on the victory stand after a track meet in Europe and received a medal and an envelope. The envelope contained a cash "appearance fee"-remuneration for showing up to compete in the event-and the provider was a member of the host country's amateur federation. An American track-meet promoter, anxious to lure a top dash man to his indoor meet to increase the gate, called a speedster and promised him $800 plus expenses for joining the field. But two meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend...