Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their formal entertaining, the Kissingers have, after the White House, the most elegant suite in the capital-the State Department's Madison Room, which is furnished with American antiques. But vast embassy receptions and cocktail parties are not really Nancy's style. "I'd fall over backwards if she became the hostess with the mostes' " said one old friend. Nancy prefers small dinners with six to eight informed, articulate friends. She smokes a lot but drinks little. Though she does not fuss over gourmet food, she is a competent cook. Not that she spent much time...
...line on Manhattan's Madison Avenue started forming before 8 a.m. each day. By 10 it had reached the proportions of a queue for The Exorcist or a new Linda Lovelace flick, except that there was something different about these people: everyone seemed to be clutching some kind of precious bundle. In fact, bundles of cash are what many of those in line now expect...
...columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment] or cut bait...
...asked to be ready to marry an important unnamed Government official the next day. Only an hour before the ceremony was Judge Thomas certain who it would be. While the judge waited, Kissinger played host at a select pre-wedding reception Saturday afternoon at the State Department's Madison Room. The few friends, invited only that morning, included General Brent Skowcroft, a member of the National Security Council, and Columnist Joseph Alsop. Also there were the Secretary's two children, Elizabeth, 15, and David, 12, by his first marriage, his brother Walter, and Nancy's brother David...
Last week in New York's Madison Square Garden, Wonder gave his first American concert since the accident. Sporting a mustache and his familiar dark glasses, he pointed toward heaven, then to his forehead and finally cut loose with a survivor's smile. From the balcony, loges and floor of the Garden came a roar-20,000 voices strong-of adulation, welcome and animal joy. He warmed up with a leisurely bit of improvisation called Approaching Contusion, then swung into some of his most famous hits: Superwoman, Superstition, Keep on Running. It was fine to hear a voice...