Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle returned to power, an editorial in a small provincial newspaper complained about France's fascination with diminutives. "Everybody wants his petite maison, his petit jardin, his petite femme, and finally his petite retraite," it said. "At this rate we will surely end up as un petit peuple." Part of De Gaulle's magic lay in his ability to lift his countrymen from such petty aspirations -and from such deep self-doubt. Now both appear to be returning more distressingly than ever. No one believes that France, the revolutionary birthplace of modern democracy, has lost all pride...
...network wedding on Christmas Day. As Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June in Philadelphia when he was autographing copies of his book, Beautiful Thoughts. "He had a Band-Aid on his hand," she recalls, "and he told me it was from removing warts." For his part, Tiny, 36, was so smitten that he "shed a tear and put it in an envelope that I always keep in my ukulele...
...upward slant. The dress, on the other hand, was a frilly white lace affair with a high puffed collar and velvet ribbons -quite British and faintly Victorian. Lord Snowdon took the photograph of his wife sitting in the tall grass of what appeared to be a country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon be off to Tokyo to open British Week, a promotion-exposition aimed at persuading the Japanese to buy ?150 million worth of British goods next year...
Saber Rattling. On the surface it had all looked like part of a familiar cycle-labor v. management saber rattling over money, hours, work conditions -all capable of rational settlement. But the talks between the Met and eleven unions were hampered by past rancors and lack of trust. Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity...
...cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches the new season like an Israelite at the edge of the Red Sea-perhaps the surging waters of mediocrity will part...