Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not give a particular hoot about the subject. The object is to dazzle with language. "The art of speaking well is being lost," says Oliphant sincerely. "We are preserving that art." To Bob Gilbert, of Princeton, authentic passion is a tactical blunder. "All my worst rounds," he says, "come when I really believe what I'm saying. You get emotional, irrational." "You need arrogance," adds Kidd, a visiting New Zealander known for his sly bluntness. "You've got to be cocky to throw all this b.s. around." One veteran of the circuit admits that the verbal showboating...
...joint press conference, Mitterrand shrugged off the spirited public disagreements between himself and Begin, saying that they only demonstrated "the democracy of our relationship." Israel did not object when French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson conferred with four prominent Arab leaders from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There was a brief flurry of concern when Begin, 68 and suffering from a heart condition, took ill at a final dinner given by the French. His doctors said that it was merely exhaustion, and the next morning Begin attended a scheduled meeting with Cheysson...
...outlined Government goals in a major antisodium crusade. Complying with President Reagan's policy against excess Government regulation, he has chosen a "voluntary" approach. Though he has made progress by mixing persuasion and pressure, he threatens "to do something mandatory" if food makers do not cooperate. Hayes' object is to convince businesses that they must 1) label for sodium content, 2) change cooking directions so that adding salt is optional, 3) reduce the amount of sodium in processed foods and 4) offer many more low-sodium or salt-free products. He plans to follow up with a consumer...
...complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet of Coke and cookies, too much simplicity leaves you craving for more substantial food for thought. But joining the ranks of the literati is not one of Luciano...
...Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...