Word: rectangularity
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...which the participants sit. For ten weeks of often absurd haggling, the parties in Paris-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the National Liberation Front-have argued about whether the table at which to discuss a settlement of the Viet Nam war should be square, oblong, rectangular, oval or any number of imaginative mutations. Last week, after studying nearly two dozen designs, the negotiators at last agreed on the shape of the table: it will be round. A few days later, they sat down as a group for the first time to get on with the deadly...
...dictator than more recent Vietnamese rulers, and that, at any rate, President Nguyen Van Thieu has all but eclipsed him) and added: "While Ky is playing around in the plush spots of Paris and haggling over whether he is going to sit at a round table or a rectangular table, American men are dying to prop up his corrupt regime." Ky's Special Assistant, Dang Huc Khoi, said that the Vice President had no intention of "joining Mr. McGovern in the gutter," but he did note that Ky had been out only once before the reception-to dine with...
...other was the shape of the negotiating table. Hanoi wanted a square one, which would give the N.L.F. a side to itself. As the Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves. It might have seemed absurd, but in the past, conferences on grave issues have foundered...
...Frankenstein, performed last weekend, the Living Theatre has constructed a remarkably flexible vehicle which has the added virtue of being a kind of epic monument to the Living Theatre. Staged on a huge jungle-jim with several long rectangular platforms, Frankenstein offers a multitude of technical challenges, most of which the company rises to in splendid style. Not that they are ever in complete harmony with their set, or it with them, but the interplay beween the two is worth following throughout. And a few effects, like the monster silhouette constructed out of better than a dozen individual bodies, really...
...Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...