Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone in the hall anticipated excitement if Nixon's least favorite television reporter asked a question. Sure enough, up stood Rather-to an outbreak of applause and jeers from the onlooking broadcasters. When the noise died down, Nixon asked, "Are you running for something?" Rather answered quickly, "No, sir, Mr. President...
Twice in the past week Washington power figures have quoted Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, standing at his window in 1914. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." But it is different down on the floor of the Senate, Ted Stevens ("How can we defend ... ?") and Robert Byrd ("Let the Soviets guess...") argue. So do others...
Among U.S. allies in Europe, only Britain, which has consistently backed the U.S. in the Afghanistan crisis, expressed immediate support for Carter. With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher nodding agreement, Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour declared in the House of Commons: "We and our American allies will use all possible measures to contain this [Soviet] threat." A West German Chancellery official complained that Carter's "warning about the Gulf states could have been made more subtly. A lower, very steady tone would be better than stridency." Many foreign diplomats in Washington agreed. Said a French diplomat who represents the Common...
...DIED. Sir Cecil Beaton, 76, English photographer, designer and arbiter of elegance; of a heart attack; in Broad Chalke, England. A tall, epicene dandy whose sartorial trademarks were silk scarves and broad-brimmed hats, Beaton was best known professionally for his portraits of the British royal family and the dazzling costumes and sets he created for operas, ballets, Broadway (My Fair Lady, Coco) and films (Gigi). Offstage he was celebrated for his frolics with the famous, including a 1940s dalliance with Greta Garbo. (Said she: "He was the only man I ever allowed to touch my vertebrae.") What...
...journalists who actually keep a daily journal, which he employs here as a film director might use jump cuts. He has the panache to handle the first person singular, although the effect can be cloying when he immodestly quotes himself: "Above all, there was the voice [Sir Ralph Richardson's], which I once described as 'something between bland and grandiose: blandiose, perhaps...