Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a difference in styles--Tsongas knows what is going on. In the car, he is pointing out the sites to Andrus. On the walking tour, it is Tsongas who knows who lives where, who is remodeling what building and how much is being spent on the canal. He gives the entourage directions to the fundraiser. This is to be expected, of course, but it is very much his attitude. Slightly anxious, always looking like he's ready to run and always: "Let's talk about the facts." Tsongas had done his homework...
Diplomats in Washington and London who have dealt extensively with Rhodesian affairs agree on one thing at least: nailing wily Prime Minister Ian Smith to any deal is almost as hard as netting a rare African butterfly. Last week, at the conclusion of a 14-day U.S. tour aimed at promoting his "internal settlement" for the breakaway British colony, Smith apparently got pinned. U.S. and British officials announced that the Prime Minister and his three black colleagues on Rhodesia's governing Executive Council had agreed to their terms for an all-parties conference dealing with the country...
Jerome Charyn exerts energies that could make a turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...
...tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon), but Ted Kotcheff s direction is lifeless. Were it not for the creepy musical score and endless interrogation scenes, it would be difficult to tell that Chefs is a suspense drama...
...center of this tour de force is The Fisherman and His Wife, the folk tale about the man who releases his magic catch after the fish promises to grant his wishes. In the traditional version, the fisherman's wife, Hsebill, ruins good fortune with her greed. In Grasss ich-theology, the ageless narrator tells his equally timeless mate Ilsebill how he threw the fish back into the Baltic after it had agreed to bring him knowledge of the outside world...