Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of the world uncertainty during Carter's first nine months has been brought about by his frenetic search for equally dramatic events that would spotlight his skill in international affairs. In some parts of the White House' there is, indeed, the brittle atmosphere of a script shop with people designing scenarios and writing memos on public postures. The selling of the Panama Canal treaty was the President's most ambitious staging so far. World and national leaders moved through an intricate and dazzling choreography before the cameras for the public's enlightenment. But the chances...
...effort to shame them into giving up crime. "We are trying to change the waters the gangsters swim in," said a police officer. Perhaps the most devastating weapon the communities wield against the yakuza is social ostracism. Parents tell their children not to play with those of the gangsters; shop owners and wives snub the families of the yakuza...
...specifically concerned with the treaty that Jimmy Carter is now selling to Congress. Wiseman wishes instead to show how the zone functions. In a progression of characteristically deadpan scenes, he records the mundane activities that define a typical day in the zone: freighters pass through its harbor; Army wives shop at supermarkets; the Governor meets with the press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor...
...lone, lucky exception is Cronin's, a solid, old-fashioned Irish watering hole on Mt. Auburn St. If your grandmother was Irish, the inside of the place should ring a bell. The comfortably dilapidated fixtures and peeling wallpaper, relics of the days when Jim Cronin kept shop on the present site of Holyoke Center, are straight from all those visits you used to make on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The bartenders fit all the necessary criteria, too. Not only do they make good, moderately-priced drinks, it's also possible to escape from them into a back room replete with...
Sillitoe contrasts his military prowess and civilian naivete through his sexual initiation with two sisters. His treatment of the two shop girls and their family is both comic and penetrating. Later, when retired colonel Scorton manages a bowling and billiards hall, Sillitoe again shows his feel for common people through his description of the clintele. His portrait of Scorton's underling, named Oxton, is the book's best characterization. The retired gunner is a lovable bachelor dependent on the need to serve...