Word: words
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam, China's former ally: There is a hooligan in the East. I am sure that we all understand about the word Cuba and about the Cuba of the East...
...Taiwanese were openly mistrustful of conciliatory words from Peking, which for years had blasted Taipei's rulers as "the Chiang clique" and "U.S. imperialist lackeys." Earlier this month, eight top Taiwanese athletes were invited by Peking to join China's national team trials for last week's Asian Games in Bangkok. All refused. After Carter's normalization announcement, Radio Peking trotted out two elderly former Nationalists, Liu Fei and Li Chung-lung, who said they would like to visit the island to "exchange views" with "old friends, including Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo," if the "Taiwan authorities...
Most of these pieces appeared in the New York Times Book Review, for which the reviewer wrote a column, now regrettably defunct, called "The Good Word," or the New York Review of Books. Sheed's opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy...
...Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word love means any more" and "I've had it with cheap sex." Is this someone's idea of a big joke...
...that if there were any implications at all for humans, it was not for ordinary fatties but for the grossly obese. Still, Yalow was inundated with a hundred letters asking for help that she clearly could not give. So Yalow has decided, for now, that mum's the word about obesity hormones. Says she: "The story's gone too far already and given a lot of desperate people a very false sense of hope...