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...also returns them. Though he loves to make stellar appearances at Washington's celebrity-packed Sans Souci restaurant, he often takes friends to dine at a modest Chinese restaurant, where his patronage is proudly noted on the menu. When he goes to Paris, he likes to bring back silk scarves to give to friends. The less visible Kissinger takes delight in his two children (he was divorced from his wife in 1964) and in other people's children...
...cultural-exchange show is a device with a long history. It originated with tribute-the bales of silk and beads, the slaves, parrots and bejeweled objects that envoys dragged into the foreign potentate's throne room as diplomatic lubricant. Over the centuries, gift became ritualized into loan. A cultural-exchange program has been part of U.S.-Soviet affairs for the past 13 years now, and whatever its actual effects on Realpolitik may be, the process is a harmless and edifying one. The latest manifestation of it is a huge compendium called "Soviet Union: Arts and Crafts in Ancient Times...
...deadpan literalness of image, generally repainted from photos with an airbrush, immaculate precision of surface, and a taste for mechanical subjects such as cars, fire trucks and long expanses of shiny kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer (about another medium) that "this...
...President slips into a comfortable, yellow silk armchair, his feet up on an ottoman, to make phone calls. "I make a great number of phone calls. The White House operators are fantastic at reaching people...
...They're absolutely hideous!" exclaimed First Lady Patricia Nixon, staring at the transparent plastic covers that had been placed on the new draperies in the White House Red Room. But the tourists traipsing through can't resist feeling the rich silk with their dirty fingers, explained an aide; the curtains would be ruined in short order. "I don't care," said Pat. "I want this house to look like my home, and I wouldn't put plastic up in my home to protect it from visitors. If necessary, I'll just have to raise...