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...Koch's private headquarters to pay his respects. "I anticipate a very tough year," said the man whose followers snarled the city in 1971 by locking drawbridges in open positions. "But I'm a pragmatic trade unionist and I will bargain." Another caller come to toast the victor was Albert Shanker, head of the muscular teachers' union and a man who had opposed Koch during the election. The powerbrokers were already getting their lines out to the mayor...
...dialogue that approaches perfect pitch. Roth can wring acid comedy from the dishrag of kitchen quarrels. Kepesh recalls a tandem tantrum he had with his wife: " 'I don't believe I am having this discussion,' she says. 'Life isn't toast!' she finally screams. 'It is!' I hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down to eat toast, life is toast. And when you take out the garbage, life is garbage! You can't leave the garbage halfway down the stairs, Helen. It belongs in the can in the yard. Covered...
Oneness for Eternity red-Gold of Sun and I looked into the red-gold of the fire and drank a first toast to 1929 (let this year be the Sunfire Year) and we all kissed each other...
...Huang sat impassively and other Chinese officials scribbled notes but asked no questions. Vance talked only about international affairs, emphasizing the areas in which Washington and Peking had common interests, but postponing the matter of Taiwan. That night, at a deliberately low-keyed banquet, Huang noted in a gloomy toast that there were "still problems" between the two countries...
...dinner in the Secretary's honor, in a 22-minute toast, Begin drew a parallel between the P.L.O. and the Nazis, and described the P.L.O. philosophy as "an Arabic Mein Kampf [which was] a danger to all free nations." Vance, in a brief, measured nonresponse, acknowledged that Washington was taking "a more active approach than you would prefer" in attempting to steer the two sides into negotiations. Vance urged his hosts to take a chance for peace and to accept "the risks of a course which can bring greater rewards, but which also leads down paths that are unfamiliar...