Word: nots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So what is the role of George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker in creating the emerging post-postwar European order? Until now the U.S. Administration has seemed like a father pacing in a waiting room: proud that things have come so far, intensely interested in the outcome, but...
Rezzori was the son of a minor aristocratic family living on the outer fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire near Czernowitz in the Bukovina, which became part of Rumania in 1919 when Rezzori was five, and was later swallowed by the Soviet Union. Rezzori's tale is not a continuous...
Strong material, then; and Rezzori follows this family labyrinth back with a fine disdain for sentiment, a transparency of feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist...
If those on the news desk are not actually on the firing line, they sometimes find themselves at least within earshot. "When a deadline looms," says Jean White, a veteran of the desk since 1975, "there is a lot of testiness both in New York and in the bureaus." During...
When correspondent Ann Blackman complained last year that she did not know what to do about Thanksgiving fixings in Moscow, news-desk editor Waits May telexed her a recipe for cabbage dressing. And sometimes the news desk reaches out and nobody's there. May recalls reading an edited story to...