Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...openly telling visiting Western diplomats that the Arabs could not possibly win a war against Israel. His well-publicized fence-mending operation with Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, his urging that Arab oil be used as a long-range commercial and diplomatic weapon against Israel, and the slight rebuke he gave Libya's hawkish strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by delaying the proposed merger of Egypt and Libya-all these acts implied that Sadat was not thinking about imminent...
...slight man with reddish brown hair, Sherrill at 36 has an old-young face lit with intelligence and sudden flashes of humor, but worn by the anxiety that comes from having to live by one's wits too early. He eschews the blaring cowboy suits and diamond stickpins of Music City, lives quietly with his wife and eleven-year-old daughter in a spacious, antique-furnished $100,000 home overlooking Nashville...
...first issue of New Times, out last week, is a slight letdown. Handsomely packaged, often stylishly written, Volume I, No. 1 does not quite live up to its billing. "Part of the excitement of putting together this magazine," Hirsch writes, "is that you never know what will happen when you unleash hardworking, honest reporters and ask them to bring back the truth." What sometimes happens, evidently, is that they bring back truths that fail to startle...
This film maker's isolation is some thing Truffaut carries over into his personal life as well. A slight, intense, diffident man, Truffaut lives in a modest rented apartment in the center of Paris. When he sees friends-like Fellow Film Makers Jacques Rivette or Claude Berri-he sees them at home over a quiet dinner. Divorced from his wife, he has been seen in company with Catherine Deneuve and, most recently, Jacqueline Bisset. "It is apparent from his films that he considers women an important part of his life," says an acquaintance. "But he is so terribly discreet...
...precedents are slight, the uncertainties legion. But Vice President Spiro Agnew's situation now seems sure to force the resolution of a number of long open constitutional questions. Last week TIME asked six experts in constitutional law and history to discuss together the complex issues and implications of the case. The six: Raoul Berger, 72, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow and authority on impeachment and Executive privilege; Alexander Bickel, 48, Yale...