Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starchy and suspicious, the Americans and their Soviet counterparts gathered next day at a long, polished table, read pompous statements to one another and still wondered what the hell was going to happen. David Aaron, disarmament planner-now a White House presence-reached across the table to light the cigarette of a Russian and dozens of bored cameramen came alive. Snap, click, whirr. Around the world a thin ray of hope shone from the morning's front pages immortalizing the symbolic U.S.-Soviet cooperation. By evening, with a little vodka under their collective belts, there was reason to believe...
Pierre Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, asked if he had read estranged Wife Margaret's lurid autobiography: "You want to know the nature of my thoughts? You won't get them...
...writing of books, including the bestselling The Best and the Brightest (1972). Halberstam retains the good reporter's eye for color, for the pithy anecdote or quotation that can make facts sit up and breathe. He still digs hard for his material; he put five years into this project, read more than 80 books and conducted extensive interviews with well over 500 people. But he listens very selectively, and at times relentlessly forces his material in the direction he wants it to go. He plays to the public curiosity about journalists as celebrities, a phenomenon that many reporters consider unfortunate...
Later in the afternoon. Steiner stood outside Massachusetts Hall again, this time to read a "personal reaction" to the demands made by the Coalition for Action and Awareness, which organized the rally. Demands are incompatible with "reasoned debate." Steiner told the hissing crowd...
...director read and re-read material on King Arthur and the Round Table, including The Once and Future King, which was Lerner's immediate source for the musical. As a result, Sakas will present a Camelot stressing the figure of the king in the dual guises of man and monarch. Although turning points in the show come when Arthur must choose between his desires and his ideals, Sakas believes Arthur's fate, like that of most tragic heroes is already determined at the opening of the play. Such a view reinforces the interpretation of Camelot as a musical tragedy...