Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want four, and if we don't have four, they can have lunch without me." Four it was. After all, another plate on the table among neighbors is no big deal. Now and then Carter grew weary of the lawyering. Around the hearth in such intimate circumstances, good men, he thought, should quit nitpicking and get down to real meanings. "That's as much as you are going to get," he told the Israelis at one point. "That's clear to us. I just don't see what all the haggling is about...
...nation's responsibilities are now global. The men at Blair House come from far away. But we seem to be drifting back to personal diplomacy and intimate settings where the powerbrokers can look each other in the eye. Last week Israelis and Egyptians, despite their outside spats, were expected to keep working in Blair House amid the Hepplewhite furniture, the Stuart oils and the busts of Franklin, Jefferson and Washington. The veritable crush of American heritage still seems to have some of the old magic...
...become the world's most honorific-and occasionally quixotic-award. Since 1901 a five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed gold medals bearing the motto Pro Pace et Fraternitate Gentium (For Peace and Brotherhood of Nations) and cash awards ranging from $30,000 to $173,700 to 59 men, five women and eleven organizations. Nineteen times the committee made no awards at all - of ten because of wars more terrible than even the father of dynamite could have envisioned...
...loan that Japan wants to extend to China could be repaid partly in the most liquid of China's assets, oil. The trouble with this scheme is that Chinese oil is waxy, heavy and, given its low quality, overpriced. Says the president of one Japanese oil company: "The men in the industry are in an angry mood. They were never consulted. They were simply told they would have to pay the price for Japan-China trade and finance Japanese exports by buying Chinese...
...movie is not without curiosity value, however, for some of Hollywood's brightest figures have tried to whip it int shape The stars are Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards. The director is Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men), a major cinematic stylist who works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton...