Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punctual as she is punctilious, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed to lose all track of time. The occasion was a five- day official visit last week to the Soviet Union that she breathlessly declared her most "fascinating and invigorating" ever. At a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Thatcher and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev delayed the second act for 20 minutes while they conferred over smoked sturgeon about arms control. The next day Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was forced to improvise at a British embassy luncheon when the Prime Minister arrived two hours...
...Jinjiang Guest House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...
During the five months since renewed direct U.S. aid has been flowing, the contras have shaped up and become more formidable. Thousands of tons of U.S. equipment, from boots to grenade launchers, have arrived at air bases at Aguacate and Swan Island, off the Honduran coast. Each contra is now dressed in an olive-green uniform and carries a Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifle, a waterproof poncho, an extra pair of socks and 400 rounds of ammunition...
...visions of the entire city of Los Angeles finding out about my little mistake. I could hear Gary saying, "I was walking in Cambridge last week and this Harvard kid, who looked about as coordinated as a stalagmite, slipped on the ice, flipped six times, and swan dived into the wind-shield of a passing bus." So I cautiously kept my mouth shut...
...premise of the picture is that the two brothers have both lost their wives in an accident caused when a swan flew in front of their car. The car was driven by a Belgian woman (Andrea Ferreol) who survives the crash, only to have her right leg amputated by the zoo's sadistic veterinarian. Before her other leg is amputated as well, Ferreol manages to seduce both the brothers and propel the picture into a series of more perplexing problems...