Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't get excited about going to a good restaurant night after night. Sometimes I pick a good wine. I don't have wines unless they are the best. During the week my relaxation may be a glass of wine or a drink, but I couldn't have a couple of belts and work well. I relax on a weekend when there is nothing to do the next day, but never at a public event. As President, an individual is expected to maintain a quality of dignity. A quality of aloofness. Yes, of course, to be friendly too, but people...
...nine-room apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park ("Isaac Stern always says he lives on top of Beverly Sills, because he's on a floor above us"). There they entertain (Peter is a graduate of the Cordon Bleu cooking school), play bridge (Peter is a tournament champion) or just relax (Beverly can do a crossword puzzle in 20 minutes...
...moment we accept the premise of narcissism, if we relax our distaste for her egocentrism, and make the effort to enjoy her as she ostensibly seems to enjoy herself, we find quickly that the veneer of joy and self-love is thin. It seems that she maintains the external, self-promoting eye in order to convince herself that she is loveable. With her diary, Anais Nin is incessantly licking the wounds of her self-hate...
...House Mirrors. To help workers relax and perhaps even laugh at themselves, Matsushita placed distorting funhouse mirrors near the entrance to the room. The employee can also enjoy a gym with a punching bag, a pitch for harmony taped by Matsushita, and the services of a professional counselor...
...soon as Brezhnev stepped from his gleaming Ilyushin Il-62 jetliner at Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through...