Word: hopscotch
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...picking an antiwar protester who claims at the outset that he won't fight. The point, of course, is to complete the rainbow coalition on a show where the issues, and the men, are too clear-cut. Viet Nam was a quagmire; Tour of Duty is a game of hopscotch...
Though at times excessive, the story's poetic description often creates a compelling sense of sensual beauty as seen through the devouring eyes of the enchanter. Pulsing with lust, he watches the child play hopscotch...
That was the main business of Murphy's diplomatic tour. U.S. officials readily admitted that Murphy had no specific plan when he began his hopscotch around the Arab capitals. But Murphy was a good choice to send on a side trip to Damascus: as U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 1974 to 1978, he developed a personal friendship with Assad. The two men talked for more than two hours before Murphy flew to Jerusalem, where he conferred with Peres for an hour. After seeing Mubarak in Cairo and lunching with Hussein in Amman, Murphy returned to Damascus on Friday...
DIED. Julio Cortázar, 69, avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...
When George Shultz began his diplomatic hopscotch across the Middle East last week, he candidly admitted that he did not expect much to come of it. The results seem to have lived down to his expectations fully. In Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad told the Secretary of State privately what he has been saying publicly for two months: Syria adamantly opposes the agreement worked out last May calling for Israel to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, and therefore Syria refuses to pull out its own forces. Admitted Shultz at trip's end: "I can't point...