Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, the North Vietnamese have not reacted as harshly as they might. Their delegation walked out of last Thursday's formal bargaining session in Paris, but those sessions have long since become meaningless anyway. Separate technical talks between U.S. and North Vietnamese experts who have been trying to iron out certain details of a proposed agreement were also suspended at Hanoi's behest. But they were not called off. The North Vietnamese have not packed their bags and gone home. They are apparently waiting to see what happens next. Therefore, U.S. officials think, the negotiations door remains significantly...
...have arrived. Behind what used to he known as the Iron Curtain, names like Cronkite, Ziegler and Archie Bunker have become as familiar to millions of TV viewers as Brezhnev, Gierek and Honecker. Local papers dutifully carrying the party line are losing a newsstand sales race to Stern, Paris Match and other Western periodicals laden with enticing advertisements. East-bloc vacationers swinging through London, Rome and Paris on American Express tours are surprised to find that the greatest evils in the treacherous West are city traffic and the new platform shoes. Why, they demand, can't the Warsaw Pact disband...
Victoria gave the crown its prestige again. An iron toughness of spirit enabled her to do so. Indeed without such a will, even her childhood would have been insupportable. Her father, one of the brutish Hanoverian dukes, died when she was only one year old. The widowed duchess then came under the influence of an Irish swindler named John Conroy. It was he who set up the famous "Kensington system" for rearing Victoria. Its aim was to make her totally dependent upon her pathetic mother and so, by remote control, upon Conroy. Little Victoria had to sleep in her mother...
Still, the New Jewelry is unmistakably contemporary, possessed of a modern playfulness that transforms familiar objects into something unique and unexpected. Take, for example, a Gucci bracelet (see overleaf) formed from a silver spike in a parody of the iron nails used by carpenters. Or Otis Creative Craft's silver wristlets, hammered from antique forks into dazzling abstract shapes. Rings, too, are subject to the New Jeweler's wit, as with the illusory double ring by Elsa Peretti: worn only on the little finger, it extends across the ring finger, appearing to encircle both. At first glance Noma...
Winning ways, iron discipline, devotion to excellence, a strong sense of religion and family, all this suggests another famous football coach. In fact, Don Shula has more than once been compared with Vince Lombardi, late mentor of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. There are, as it happens, other traits the two men had in common: an incandescent temper and a penchant for chewing out miscreant players, often in front of their confederates. While Shula is every bit as consecrated as Lombardi was to the idea that "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing...