Word: sofas
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...furniture, marginally stylish when new, shows the wear of a decade and the impact of two lively kids. A Kiss album has been left abandoned on a sofa that Elton John wouldn't allow in the servants' quarters. A silver-blue Mercedes-Benz is parked in the concrete driveway, but automotive ostentation is endemic to Los Angeles, even to such a comparatively modest suburb as Woodland Hills...
...strangers turn up at the roomy West Side Manhattan apartment that he shares with Alma, his wife for 38 years. They find a slightly stooped, nearly bald host with fine, parchment-like skin and strikingly pale blue eyes. He looks frail until he talks or moves, scuttling be tween sofa, telephone and front door with the vitality of a chipmunk...
...There goes the summer vacation," moaned a weary Christian Democratic leader last week, flipping off a television set at party headquarters and sinking back into a sofa. "We won't be able to see straight until fall. Even then, who knows...
...days of Talleyrand or Machiavelli, face to face, man to man. That is why Cyrus Roberts Vance, 61, the cool, gray professional who serves as the U.S.'s 56th Secretary of State, last week found himself tossing and twisting on a blue and green sofa bed some 35,000 ft. over the Sahara desert. He was on the move once again, in a white and blue Air Force Boeing 707 outfitted like a flying foreign ministry, with its own cryptographic machines and its own ice cubes...
Alas, the snow has forced the fans into action. Off the sofa and into the heat of battle. At Harvard, at least, the blizzard has turned a bunch of seemingly-lobotomized color TV radiation victims into participatory sportsmen...