Word: couches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parody which characterized Love and Death. Then again, in Annie Hall, Allen doesn't need to go as far away in space as Russia, or as far away in time as several thousand years A.D. He can score points off the present without ever straying from his psychoanalyst's couch...
...power-Carter tends to use it only for ceremonial occasions and special meetings. Most of his day is spent in his adjacent small study, which is connected to the Oval Office by a short passageway. The room is sunny, the decor simple yet elegant; long curtains, gold carpet, white couch, two green easy chairs that are prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant changes in Carter's daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic...
...Jeff and their wives. Like the President, the other members of the Carter clan seem tired. Chip is holding his six-week-old son James Earl Carter IV in his arms. The baby is asleep and hardly stirs as the President takes him and sits down on a couch to watch a few minutes of the evening news...
Abrahamsen, however, has never met Richard Nixon, much less put him on the couch. That has not deterred him from making some sweeping generalizations in diagnosing Nixon's alleged "emotional illness." For much of his life, Abrahamsen argues, Nixon has been "totally lacking in joy," "unable to form a healthy relationship with anyone" and "incapable of making a firm commitment based on personal conviction." (The latter is fortunate, Abrahamsen says; if the man had any strongly held ideals, he would have been much more dangerous.) Abrahamsen fairly raids the professional lexicon of disorder in describing Nixon: he is variously...
Shanghai had its own version of the casting couch, and she was often seen with Chang Keng, a director and prominent Communist Party official, who told party comrades that she "belonged" to him. "She's my girl," he warned them, "so don't touch." She insists that she was able to keep him at bay, whatever his claims to the contrary. When she refused Chang Keng's offer of marriage, he forbade the League of Left-Wing Dramatists to give her roles. Worse still, he branded her with the scarlet "T" -spreading the rumor that...