Word: pinging
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...Richard Nixon is not haggling with members of the Chinese table tennis team over the cover price of the 1972 book Eye on Nixon, which chronicled his China travels. The former President was simply recalling how his "Ping Pong diplomacy" with a previous Chinese team nine years ago helped reopen relations between the U.S. and China. The visiting gang of eight presented Nixon with their team banner. He responded with a gift that may result in excess baggage charges on their flight home: autographed copies of the coffee-table tome edited by Daughter Julie Eisenhower and written by former Nixon...
...remade his own picture eleven times. To evaluate For Your Eyes Only and the other Bond movies, it helps to think of them not as, say, different vintages of a fine Bordeaux but as successive models off the Pontiac assembly line. In one vehicle there may be an annoying ping in the engine of narrative; in another the dialogue may be as sleek as Genuine Corinthian Leather. But all meet the same standards of speed, styling and emotion control. If there is no Rolls-Royce in the Bond series, there is also no Pinto...
...public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or Ping-Pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only athletic outlet, and when he becomes an alumnus, its activities will form the foci for fond memories, homecoming weekends, and pleas for financial support. More than any other part...
...were opening in the U.S. and the sun was setting in Tehran, I had just finished reporting a story on terms set by the Majlis for the release of the American hostages. To relax, I went down to the basement of the Time-Life office in Tehran to play Ping-Pong with friends...
...With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped by to play Ping-Pong with me shortly after my office was raided...