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Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
Sergienko said the harassment by fellow workers included a verbal threat to poison him, and closing of a refrigerator door while he was inside cleaning...
...private political secretary, who was just plain Marcia Williams before Wilson recommended her for a life peerage in 1974. Now Joe Haines, who served as Wilson's press secretary from 1969 until the Prime Minister's retirement from No. 10 Downing Street last April, has drafted a poison-pen portrait of Lady Falkender more lacerating than the anti-Tory blasts that he used to ghostwrite for Harold. Her ladyship, it seems, was the epic back-room bully of British politics...
...greatest poem, "Voyage," in a brilliant translation by Robert Lowell, concludes: "Only when we drink poison are we well-/ we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue,/ to drown in the abyss-heaven or hell,/ who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find...
...shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based on the value of pi carried to the fourth decimal place: 3.1415. The 14 lines are divided into groups containing three, one, four, one and five lines-in that order. Perec's greatest verbalistic...