Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed the second act of Cardinal Knowledge gets better. For one thing, it's shorter than the first act. For another the numbers are much catchier. The music by Paris K.C. Barklay is peppy, sweet and unashamedly derivative. One nice number called "Heaven Would Be Hell Without You" has phrases astonishingly like Jerome Kern's "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine," and Leonard Bernstein could claim at least a one per cent royalty. But the best music is Barklay's own and sprightly. The lyrics rise and dip, more to Appalachian than Olympic heights and similarly...
Lodge's book, covering a shorter period, and dealing with international issues in more substance than Saltonstall's, seems to be constructed mostly from letters, memos, and notes of meetings that remain in Lodge's files. As such, it may be more accurate, and is certainly written in finer detail. But the book, dwelling on the transition period between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and, later on, Lodge's years at the United Nations, needs more definition of what material is important, and what is merely trivia. Aside from a brief conclusion exhorting the United Nations to do better, there...
...told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
...their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer cheek, man goes to peck cheek, woman's hair falls in way, man ends with lips and glasses entangled in hair. Rapid disengagement follows...
...together make up 90% of an exploding population of 40 million-had for months grown increasingly bitter over continuing "sacrifice" demanded by their government. They chafed under commodity shortages and inflation rising at the rate of 37% a year. Those who shopped in private food stores-where lines were shorter but prices four times higher than in subsidized government stores-complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel...