Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks began that afternoon at a long wooden table in the Great Hall of the People. Vance was literally the only person to speak for almost 2½ hours, while Foreign Minister Huang sat impassively and other Chinese officials scribbled notes but asked no questions. Vance talked only about international affairs, emphasizing the areas in which Washington and Peking had common interests, but postponing the matter of Taiwan. That night, at a deliberately low-keyed banquet, Huang noted in a gloomy toast that there were "still problems" between the two countries...
...ended up eating, drinking and smoking too much." His eyes are strangely hooded, like Bert Lance's, as if he has just awakened?or is about to go to sleep. He is graying early, and he could easily be mistaken for someone ten years older than he is. In person, Silverman is affable but tentative. He does not shake hands but thrusts forth his fingers instead, as if afraid that the full package might not be returned. At CBS he was known as a hypochondriac who would run off about once a week for an EKG at Roosevelt Hospital...
...bury a romantic genre made popular by W. Somerset Maugham. Theroux has small patience for old Willie. Nailing one aging expatriate who spent most of his life drinking at the local white man's club, Theroux's mouthpiece observes that "he had failed at being a person, so he tried to succeed at being a character-someone out of Maugham. What tedious eccentricity Maugham was responsible for! He made heroes of these timeservers; he glorified them by being selective and leaving out their essential flaws...
Medical costs in the U.S. are so high partly because nonprofit insurance companies and government programs have been paying most doctor and hospital bills, with few questions asked. One person who wants to do something about it is President Carter, who has proposed setting cost ceilings on medical services. Now the Blue Cross Association, representing the largest conglomerate of hospitalization insurers, has joined the Carter cost-cutting crusade...
...admire Chris Evert's consistency and dedication. She makes a perfect cross-court smash. The picture flickers. Evert reappears selling a brand of sneakers. Damn, I think, why do they have to package Evert? But the truth is that the package and person...