Word: russian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shanghai Express." But she squanders her assets. "She wears a ghastly bright red lipstick that kills the color in her face. She does not wear any eye make up and therefore looks mousy. She buys brightly colored, constricting clothes." Blass' prescription is to dress her in Edwardian or Russian-inspired clothes. For daytime receptions, he would like to see Pat in a round-cornered cloth coat, with a Russian sable stole and hat to soften the lines of her face...
Sitting Tight. By the very vagueness of the proposals, which left loopholes for negotiation, the Russian initiative aroused interest-and conflicting evaluations-among officials of the outgoing Johnson Administration. They are drafting a reply to the Soviet note for Lyndon Johnson, asking for clarification and suggesting further exchanges. So far, the U.S. envisages any big-power agreement not as a deal to be "imposed" but merely as a set of proposals that U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring could present to Arabs and Israelis. He resumes his go-between role this month after five weeks at his regular post as Sweden...
Israeli diplomats perceive an ominous threat in the very idea of a settlement "imposed" by the big powers. Should it happen, it would serve to make permanent and legitimate the Russian presence in the Middle East. And they are convinced that it would be achieved at the expense of their own hard-won security. In Washington and the U.N., they launched a vigorous counteroffensive against what they called a "Munich" settlement...
...relentlessly entrepreneurial grandfather. He recalls that "we always wanted to know what was going on in Detroit"-and at 18 he was sent on a two-month auto tour of the U.S. Gianni saw World War II from both sides, first as a tank officer on the Russian front. After Italy withdrew from the war in 1943, he joined an Italian outfit that fought alongside General Mark Clark's Fifth Army...
...fine theatre (in the old Electric Light Company building), a sturdy professional air, and a healthy share of enthusiasm for left-wing ideals. What it needs are writers and performers who will trust the audience enough to raise the level of the entertainment above the simplistic. Bits about a Russian and American discovering they are the same under the skin or about the middle-aged businessman asking himself "Am I happy? Am I happy?" as he goes through his dehumanizing daily routine are just not clever enough to raise our body heat...