Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceptions to that rule. Mary Tyler Moore, of course, and lots of my friends are experiencing all sorts of separation anxiety at the prospect of the termination of her show. And, to a lesser degree, Bob Newhart. Unlike Mary, who's developed a whole case of fine supporters, Bob has had to pull it off pretty much on his own; his secretary Carol, brother Howard, and friend Jerry are the sort of boring eccentrics that you hope will never try to make conversation with you. But Newhart is something different; his cool, understated humor stands in sharp contrast...
THIS SPECULATION leads to the prophecies of a Cassandra, but the prospect of statehood does evoke ghoulish images. The cruellest trick for exterminating coyotes on the western ranges is to freeze a compressed spring inside a chunk of horsemeat. When the greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history...
After all the years of high drama, the secret missions overseas, the exhausting negotiations when everything depended upon him, it seems hard to believe that Henry Kissinger will no longer be the U.S. Secretary of State. There will never be another like him-a prospect that pleases his enemies as much as it saddens his admirers. The debate on Henry the K's legacy is just starting and promises to grow-and grow. He is, as Psychohistorian Bruce Mazlish explains, "one of those figures, like a Churchill or a De Gaulle, who bestride their eras and dominate...
...life spanned some of the most glorious years of modern British history and some of the most traumatic-from the empire's pinnacle at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, through two devastating wars, to the humiliating retreat from Suez in 1956 and the prospect of devolution at home. For three decades he was a highly visible, thoroughly photogenic presence at international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved...
...spite of the prospect that he might be blown away by the first gust of applause, Kremer is a man on a serious musical mission. As he put it, "When I am onstage I want the people not just to like what I am doing, but to need what I am doing." The need for Gidon Kremer should start building...