Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article "At the Sound of the Beep ..." [ESSAY, Nov. 26] was wonderful. The fun in having an answering machine is hearing it ring while you are at home and not answering. That is power...
...gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies once thrilled the critics, is hardly reviewed today...
...gang will all be there when Secretary of State George Shultz's jet heads for Geneva next month, but it is most unlikely to unite in a chorus of Hail, Hail! Instead, the flight may ring with the same discord that fills Washington whenever the subject turns to arms control, since chiefs of all the warring factions will be thrown together. One voice, however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting...
Lewis: If a newspaper runs a story saying, "An informed source tells us that Mr. Jones, who has been a hostage in Iran, was actually a runner for the heroin ring," is that right? Should you do that? And if he sues, shouldn't he be entitled to probe to get that name? He's a private citizen. He's not General Westmoreland...
Instead, it will stick to traditional in-house festivities. Santa Claus will make a guest appearance the Sunday before Christmas, and assorted local choirs and musical groups will sing, ring bells and play jazz guitar in the Coop's mezzanine and men's clothing department...