Word: pense
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The loosely chronological narrative-a series of signed excerpts contributed by each family member-recounts the Schecters' efforts to apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign...
There is a set of chopsticks used by Richard Nixon in China, a souvenir can of caviar from Russia, a bronze bust of the former President and a full display of cufflinks, matchboxes, pens and playing cards from his years in the White House. All are part of a one...
Unfortunately, the accusers and the accused in Special Section are brothers under the skin: every one of them, regardless of political persuasion, is a resounding stereotype. There are no real characters, only cameos enacted by a large cast of mostly unfamiliar actors. The judges are straw men in scarlet robes...
Those Pershings. As scheduled, Israeli and Egyptian representatives at Geneva's Palais des Nations put their pens to the interim Sinai accord. Also as expected, the Israelis only initialed the documents, withholding full signatures-and full binding agreement to the Sinai package-until an Administration proposal to station up...
It may be that in an energetic, profligate culture like America's, language seems as disposable as ballpoint pens or beer cans. That throwaway mentality may account for some of the negligence. The argument is not between changes, linguistic innovation, new combinations on the one hand, and priggish correctness...