Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiff began with a minuet over which man would pay the first high- profile private visit to China since the massacre outside Tiananmen Square. Kissinger had planned to address a Beijing conference on foreign investment in October. But he called off the trip in September after the Wall Street Journal published an account of his business deals, which include a $75 million partnership called China Ventures. Three weeks later, Nixon began his excursion to Beijing. After he arrived, an aide released a background paper pointing out that Nixon had no Chinese business interests. Though the document named no names, some...
Early in the play, Dallas gets into a tiff with Garry Lejune (Donivan Barton), who plays Nothing On's furtive Roger Tramplemain; they disagree about why Tramplemain must complete a certain stage direction. Barton is amusing with his inarticulate show of righteous anger, but most of the laughs come from Zelman's deadpan delivery. Dallas' reaction to Tramplemain's tantrum exemplifies his feeling toward his cast: "I'm starting to know what God felt like, sitting outside in the darkness, creating the world: He was very happy that He'd taken His valium...
...addition to his tiff with Spike Lee, Hall has been embroiled in a feud with Willis Edwards, president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. When Hall's show began, Edwards complained publicly about the scarcity of blacks in key behind-the-scenes positions. (Hall's producer and director, as well as the vice president of his production company, are all white women.) According to Hall, after making the statements Edwards asked for a $40,000 contribution to his organization, a request that Hall told a reporter "sounds like extortion to me." Edwards denied asking for money...
Junior Char Joslin, who last year registered a hat trick against Yale, tallied her 24th point of the season at the end of the first period. She glided across the middle, knocking the puck past goaltender Captain Tiff Bingham to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...named Frederick Exley sits on the balcony outside his room in a Honolulu hotel, sipping vodka and heating up steaks on a portable grill. It is his wedding night, and he and his bride have just had their first tiff as husband and wife. Eventually, she stops sulking and joins him. "Dropping to her knees," Exley writes, "she grasped my bare thighs and begged me to please, please, please remove the grilling fork from my chest." Exley, in other words, is up to the same trick he demonstrated in A Fan's Notes (1968) and Pages from a Cold Island...