Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris Correspondent George Taber, it was a routine background lunch. Assigned to keep a running watch on events in Portugal, Taber talked politics in a Right Bank bistro with Mário Soares, an obscure exile who was teaching Portuguese and history at a French university. Since that meeting a year and a half ago, Soares has returned home to lead Portugal's powerful Socialist Party, and Taber has visited Lisbon several times to report on "the Revolution of the Flowers" (named for the red carnations that symbolized the Armed Forces Movement...
...will be a great winter for girl watchers-and for girls who watch their figures. In show after show last week, as Paris couturiers unveiled their fall designs, last year's loose look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses...
...backs. Secure in their aloofness and a sense of superiority, the women dispense maternal care in its oddest forms, and the men go home happy. One client makes elaborate banana splits on a naked woman's stomach while munching on a banana. A man from Georgia comes to watch a white woman do erotic dances with a black woman. A finance mogul pays Xaviera to huskily recite the Dow Jones averaged while she strips on his conference table. A preppie comes in to talk to his woman about the problems of yachting, and his face lights up when she murmurs...
...worst industrial depression since the '30s. I shall certainly be discussing this with President Ford when we meet together in Helsinki next week. As a big trading nation, we have set ourselves very strongly against physical import controls. But we are not going to sit back and watch a remorseless increase in British unemployment. If the slump doesn't begin to improve quickly, we obviously reserve our rights to protect our balance of payments by various means...
...pervades every remark. For example: "I really like to eat alone. I want to start a chain of restaurants for other people who are like me called Andy-Mats-The Restaurant for the Lonely Person. You get your food and then you take your tray into a booth and watch television...