Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclave may go down in history as one of the longest, most arduous diplomatic marathons of the postwar period. Even so, delegates from 33 European countries, the U.S. and Canada were full of optimism last week: an end to their mission seemed to be in sight. U.S. Envoy Max Kampelman helped set the tone as he returned to Madrid's sprawling concrete Palace of Congresses after consultations with Administration officials in Washington. Kampelman predicted international approval of a 35-page draft document that summed up, after 32 months of often desultory negotiation, the compromises reached at the Conference...
...began as fury and inspiration quickly became fashion. By 1973 rock audiences were all glammed up, while the music, by Bowie and fellow glitterbugs like Elton John and T. Rex, tried to keep going on the momentum of its own outrage. His concerts took on the dimensions of a Max Reinhardt extravaganza, with some added stage business that would have got Max busted back in old Berlin. Bowie would kneel in front of his lead guitarist Mick Ronson, clutch Mick's butt and apply his lips and tongue to the extremities of Ronson's Les Paul Custom...
...like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible cohost, he appeals to the Lord-man to man, of course: "I don't know if the concept 'You owe me one' means anything...
...that two battalions of perhaps 1,500 Nicaraguan troops still surrounded them on three sides, leaving open only the mountainous retreat into Honduras. "This place is now dangerous," he said. "They have helicopters, mortars and troops. It's only a question of when they hit us again." Commander "Max," who was supposed to have met us, was somewhere in the field "fighting with the guerrillas." When we asked for a chance to observe the contras' popular support, Zero Three snapped, "The people and the guerrillas, the guerrillas and the people! Sí. I have heard the question...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Neil Simon, 55, playwright and screenwriter; and Marsha Mason, 41, actress for whom he wrote lead parts in the movies Max Dugan Returns, Only When I Laugh, The Goodbye Girl and Chapter Two, the last a lightly disguised comic portrait of their courtship and marriage; after ten years of marriage; no children; in Los Angeles...