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...radical feminism and black humor. Soul's How the Hell Are You? is also based on letters and postcards from a homosexual male on the cosmopolitan circuit to his friend Jane who stays home. He's on his way to key West, where he'll lie on Tennessee Williams' lawn until he comes out: "His doctors told him he should move to Key West and live like a crocodile." He loves London, even though that's where he finds out "you can't love two people at once, especially when they're married--to each other...
...strains of the Chinese national anthem sounded first last week on the south lawn of the White House, as summit protocol demands. Then the U.S. Army Band gave an equally rousing version of The Star-Spangled Banner. From a windswept podium on the crest of the low hill, the two leaders exchanged bland welcoming remarks, then mounted a balcony to acknowledge the applauding crowd of some 1,000 dignitaries. Suddenly, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair...
...summit with Teng officially began at 10 a.m. on a gray and threatening Monday. Teng and his diminutive wife Cho Lin pulled up to the south lawn, in a black armored limousine and were warmly greeted by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Teng briskly walked down the line of 35 U.S. dignitaries, shaking hands with the zest of a U.S. politician, and then clambered onto the small red-carpeted reviewing stand. The wind gusted so hard that Rosalynn reached out to steady Cho Lin as she wobbled on the steps...
...paraphrase of one of Mao's sayings: "You cannot make this a garden party! You cannot stop the revolution!" Secret Service men carted him away too. Both were reporters for a Maoist press service in Seattle and had used their press credentials to get onto the south lawn. Unperturbed, Carter spoke steadily on, missing not a line, but Teng looked startled and Rosalynn later admitted that she had been frightened. "I wondered how many more there would be," she murmured. None, it turned out. About 800 other demonstrators, including Maoists, anti-Communist Chinese and anti-Nationalist Taiwanese, were kept...
That will help cool any White House session with the Soviets. But the sooner Carter returns the expected Brezhnev visit and gets himself to the Kremlin, the better off we all will be. Carter may have an inkling about that. When he greeted Teng on the South Lawn of the White House last week, he dragged out that old Chinese proverb: "Seeing once is worth more than 100 descriptions...