Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's not much class, but plenty of struggle, at the Lipkin mansion in Beverly Hills. Oh, sure, the rich know brand names: Harry Winston's jewels drape each mandarin wrist, and much Steuben Glass stands about, waiting to be shattered; and at the funeral for the Lipkins' pet pooch, Michael Feinstein plays piano. But the Lipkins and the Hepburn-Saravians, their haughty next- door neighbors, are egalitarians when considering where their next bedmate should come from. By the end of a weekend in the country, two elegant matrons will have been seduced by their former husbands, one of whom...
...American critics who attacked the Administration for not sending an escort for Fang, or even holding a separate but highly visible meeting with dissidents. On his departure for Seoul, Bush expressed to Vice Premier Wu Xueqian his regret that Fang had been barred from the banquet and instructed Ambassador Winston Lord to follow up on the matter with the Foreign Ministry. The Chinese announced that they "resented" the U.S. decision to invite Fang to the dinner without consulting them. When an Administration official replied that the U.S. was under no obligation to do so, Beijing termed the remark "irresponsible...
Truman's aide Clark Clifford remembers that during a poker game with Winston Churchill, the old lion praised the U.S. but lamented one dreadful American lapse: "You people quit drinking after dinner." These days, maybe even sooner...
...Jackson, than with most Republicans. Likewise, Ronald Reagan's diplomatic appointees encountered more opposition in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from the G.O.P.'s own Jesse Helms than from the soporifically temperate senior Democrat, Claiborne Pell. In 1985 Helms held up the confirmation of Reagan's Ambassador to China, Winston Lord, for more than three months, preventing him from being at his post when then Vice President George Bush visited Beijing...
...only a couple of weeks after being sworn in. Though Quayle played the traditional role of Just Barely Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill's classic line that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He ridiculed the "self-importance" of the "Washington | Establishment" -- rather odd for the Vice President of an Administration dominated by such Establishment types as Bush and most members of the Cabinet...