Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could the U.S. deal with further Cuban adventurism? Kissinger is certain to be asked that repeatedly next month when he begins a two-week African tour that will take him to eight or more countries. Some American observers suggest that Kissinger's tough talk on Cuba might be aimed partly at countering domestic critics who charge that he has been too soft on the Soviets in his pursuit of détente. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Kissinger tried to temper the stir created by his most recent pronouncements. He said: "There...
...plastic perfection," carped the Guardian. Said the critic from the Daily Mirror: "The lady has no depth." Maybe not, but audiences bought up every ticket for the singer's three-day London engagement, and six more concerts have been added at the completion of her 19-city European tour. Even in the plastic version, soul sells...
...really. While looking for someone to play the role of Cohn, Feiffer remembered seeing Seltzer in early 1975 in an off-off Broadway production of The Sea Gull. In August, he tracked down the professor, who was on a lecture tour in Africa, and signed him up. Seltzer insisted on one condition: that the play be put off until January, when he was scheduled to start a sabbatical...
...authors soon discover that the tour is a grinding, unglamorous ordeal. What should be a time to savor the satisfaction of having completed months, even years of solitary work turns into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack...
Redford's interest in Watergate began when he heard a group of reporters discussing the bungled breakin. Ironically they were covering the actor's promo tour for The Candidate. They all thought Nixon had probably known about it and that no one?least of all their fellow newsmen?would ever pursue the matter far enough to confirm or deny their suspicions...