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...Lacking any formal announcements of either final agreement or impasse, newsmen concentrated on the omens-and they were ambiguous. As Kissinger emerged from one session, a nearly all-black cat jumped atop his Cadillac limousine. At another meeting in the private home of an American jeweler in fashionable Neuilly-sur-Seine, Kissinger pointed at the ceiling and said with a puckish smile: "When the light bulb starts blinking, it means we have to change the tape." As the North Vietnamese laughed, Kissinger assured them the room was not bugged...
...uncomfortable-looking Marine-improbably disguised in a Cardin suit-stood guard at the door to Kissinger's bedroom. Early in the week, motorcycle-borne photographers had tracked the negotiators' limousines in a wild cross-country pursuit to their secret meeting place in the Paris exurb of Gif-sur-Yvette: a two-story, tile-roofed villa. A gallery of photographers and TV cameramen gathered on ladders, fence posts and nearby rooftops in hopes of finding out what was being said inside the villa...
...legal trouble-if the name happens to be one that French law finds distasteful. Last week every Frenchman with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like...
...commercial Broadway plays that, as movies, remain stubbornly stagebound. Most of Lovers takes place inside the same apartment set, instilling a sense of in creasing confinement that stifles screen comedy. There are some good fleeting gags, but here too there is a sense of constriction. Simon writes jokes and sur faces, not characters, so the actors really have nowhere to go in developing their roles...
...trial at the Old Bailey turn himself into a swarm of malevolent bees. Soon after, the bees become a pack of ravening wolves and then, successively, a series of the earth's largest life forms: an elephant leading a protest march and a grove of giant sequoias sur rounding Buckingham Palace...