Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diplomatic Illness. It was possible that Castro, who is a bit paunchy at 45, was "simply tired," as Polish government spokesmen insisted. But then there was the theory, endorsed by some European newspapers, that Castro was suffering a diplomatic illness meant to convey his unhappiness at a possible attempt by Polish officials to arrange a meeting between him and Richard Nixon, who had passed through Warsaw a few days earlier...
...Poland were inevitably anticlimactic. The Nixon party was received by some 500,000 cheering, flag-waving spectators in Teheran, and a smaller but animated crowd in Warsaw. For the first time on his trip, Nixon got out of his car in Warsaw to shake hands with onlookers. The Polish people responded by surging around him and singing "Sto Lat, Sto Lat," from the song May You Live to Be a Hundred. In Iran, Nixon conferred with Shah Reza Pahlevi, attended an elaborate white-tie dinner in the Niavaran Palace-and was far from three exploding bombs set by terrorists...
...crossed Checkpoint Charlie. Second, the Foreign Ministers of NATO, briefed on the summit by Rogers, selected Helsinki as the site to begin exploratory talks in the fall that will precede a 33-nation conference on European security, probably in 1973. It would presumably legitimize the Russian seizure of Polish and German lands in World War II. But the NATO Ministers insist that progress be made simultaneously toward a reduction of forces in Europe by both sides...
...wife chanced upon seven soldiers with an army truck looting the home of the French consul, and were roughed up by the looters. The following morning the Foreign Ministry made apologies and returned the consul's belongings. Burglaries have also occurred at homes of Italian, Canadian, Polish and Bulgarian diplomats. One exception of the caballeros de la noche: the Russian embassy, which also happens to be the most heavily guarded...
Hound's action takes place in a theater on opening night. It is a spoof of an Agatha Christie thriller, and Stoppard handles it with prankish zest, though it lacks the urbane comic polish and spine-prickling tremors that Anthony Shaffer put into his Christie takeoff, Sleuth. The subplot concerns two drama critics who observe and comment on the play and eventually get actively drawn into it at no small risk. Here Stoppard is sly and wry, and one may guess that he views critics with bemused affection and subdued contempt...