Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many opponents of the China deal rallied round Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who in his text for a televised reply to Carter said: "The President called into question this nation's treaty world." Goldwater credibility filed suit in throughout the federal court in Washington to test Carter's authority to end the 1954 defense treaty with Taiwan. Contending that no treaty can be terminated without a two-thirds vote by the Senate, Goldwater called Carter's decision "an out right abuse of presidential power...
...Saisons is a gesture of hom age, not a work of criticism. This is not the first Colette album; only three years ago, Yvonne Mitchell published Colette: A Taste for Life, a generously illustrated biography that reproduced many of the photographs included here, and with a far more comprehensive text. But Co lette was inexhaustibly photogenic. "There were no more beautiful eyes in the world," declared her last husband, Maurice Goudeket, "nor any which knew better...
Rock Critic Robert Palmer has supplied a fleet, smart text for the book, but Baby, That Was Rock & Roll is made up mostly of lyrics (terrific) and old photos (family-scrapbook evocative). Mike Stoller's wonderful music is necessarily shortchanged in print. Its influences can be traced-boogie, R&B, smatterings of Latin rhythm and Broadway melody -but the magic remains in the grooves. Best thing to do while looking through this book is put on some Elvis and some Coasters...
...flew into Cairo a week ago Sunday. He knew that he would have to get concessions from the Egyptians and that Sadat was going to try to rewrite parts of the draft treaty. Vance was determined to resist because any tampering with even minor points of a text in the late stages of talks risks unraveling the entire negotiations. He hoped to use the approaching Dec. 17 deadline as a bargaining lever...
...before, every decade migrates into the vocabulary of folklore. There it persists as a sort of handy hieroglyph for conjuring up popular memories of a time. So it is that "the '20s," as a phrase, evokes not only The Great Gatsby but more social lore than the entire text of the novel. Similarly, to allude to the '30s, the '40s, the '50s or the '60s is to speak volumes. In contrast, the '70s have not, so to speak, learned to talk...