Word: entertaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That hospitality promised to be lavish, as Washington, Atlanta, Houston and Seattle geared up to entertain Teng. Other locales were considered and rejected, largely because of the potential for bad weather: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City and Cincinnati, as well as cities in Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee. Said one scheduler: "We wanted diversity and national representation. But we also wanted to be able to get him in and out of places...
Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was making extensive plans to entertain Teng when he makes his state visit to the U.S. later this month. The proposed program includes a trip to Texas, where Teng can discuss buying oil equipment, a journey to a big Midwestern farm and an extravaganza at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...editorial, as valid today as it was 40 years ago: "As English spreads over the world, will it be able to maintain its present form? Probably not. But why should it? ... Stability in language is synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language has been besieged by vulgarities. But it has also been enriched by vigorous phrases and terms. To those who speak and write with care, those words are the unmistakable beats of life...
Above all, The Coup exhibits Updike's boundless sense of play. It allows him to entertain serious questions, without the turgidness of writers who solemnly subcribe to the high-moral fiber diet. Updike, a former "Talk of the Town" writer for The New Yorker, now moves out to cover the Talk of the World...
Presented with such a golden opportunity to go wild, only a troupe of embalmed corpses could fail to entertain, and the Winthrop players rise to the challenge with unabashed enthusiasm. Mike Herrmann as the out-of-work actor Diabetes, and George Melrod as Hepatitis both look uncannily like Groucho Marx and play their urban-Jewish-intellectual-neurotic characters to the hilt. Meanwhile, the supporting cast, led by the gum-cracking, orgasm-seeking Phil major from Brooklyn College and Great Neck, Doris Levine (played nicely by Jaleh Poorooshasb), camps and hams through Allen's inspired lunacy. Every new character who walks...