Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...egos or so furiously stamping on each other's toes. But things are kept pretty much in control here--each star is given his own piece of the sky within which to shine. Particularly engaging are David Niven, Maggie Smith, and Peter Falk, while the only real gap is Truman Capote, who may have better luck in his current effort to become Marcel Proust. At the Cheri, in Boston...
Paul Warnke, 56, was also a Viet Nam dove, was an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the L.B.J. era, and is now a law partner of Democratic Elder Statesman Clark Clifford, a potent adviser to all Democratic Presidents−and Presidents-elect−since Harry Truman. Warnke and Vance (but not Ball) are members of Carter's 28-member Foreign and Defense Policy Task Force...
...case of Iran, America has at all times symbolized right and justice, and this attitude has always been spontaneous on her part and heartening to us. This was best exemplified by the invaluable and truly generous assistance offered to my country through President Truman's Point Four and other aid programs, which were of inestimable and timely help to us in the critical postwar years...
...modeled on real people. The roman à clef, a reader is tempted to answer, is ticktacktoe with a one-move handicap. Naturally there is more to it than that, and the question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only the form the bestselling novel takes in 1976 but the symbol of a rather shoddy year that could just possibly go down in history as the Age of Psst...
...brief period since he set himself up in a Bel Air mansion, Simon, now 48, has not only survived but scored mightily. His new movie, Murder by Death, starring Truman Capote, Sir Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers and David Niven, will open later this month, and by all advance reports it is one of Simon's best pictures. His new play, California Suite, a sort of Plaza Suite West, starring George Grizzard and Tammy Grimes, played to cheering houses in Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater for six weeks. The show was such a hit that it has already...