Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prose imparts the true ambiance of the negotiations--slow-moving, technical and petty. His writing is often as convoluted as the bureaucratic garble he describes. A diplomatic correspondent for Time, Talbott portrays a Soviet missile as if he were one of the mutants worshipping the bomb in the movie Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Sounding much like a budding David Halberstam, he writes...
...remark did nothing to warm up Rosalynn's rather chilly reception in the state. At her four stops, she may have felt as if she were confronting the same scenes she faced back in the days of Jimmy Who?small, undemonstrative, show crowds. Beneath a brilliant autumn sky, a tense-faced Rosalynn offered her usual blend of sugar and steel. "I'm very proud of Jimmy." she said in her soft drawl. "He has a solid record of achievement. He's proved his leadership." Pestered all day with questions about Kennedy, Rosalynn said repeatedly: "The last thing...
...more than a decade, Ted Kennedy has sat beneath these pictures waiting, reluctantly, for the time to try for his full share of that heritage. Now he has finally moved so close to the long-awaited campaign that his conversation is that of a candidate, not of a politician still considering, as he vows he is, whether...
...first week of the Edward Kennedy campaign. As he sat beneath the family pictures, explaining the partial announcement that was heard as a clear declaration, Kennedy evinced no enthusiasm, no great relish of what lies before him. "This is a very sober challenge," he said softly, "one that you have to approach from a very sober point of view." He paused and then added in an even quieter voice...
Three times last week, the long black Cadillac limousine glided into the underground garage beneath the State Department; three times Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin slipped into a private elevator and rode up to the seventh-floor office of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. After each meeting, both diplomats avoided reporters' questions. There had already been far too much threatening and ill-considered rhetoric about the problem that confronted them: the controversial role of Soviet combat troops in Cuba...