Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper class; many appeared to be desert tribesmen. There was no ceremony at the table, and no distinction between rich and poor. A few guests finished quickly and left without so much as glancing at their host. Others stayed to sip coffee with the Prince in the palace corridor. There were, of course, no women present...
...asked three leading Israeli intellectuals who hold quite different views to reflect on the contrast, as they saw it, between the dream of Israel and the reality. Novelist Amos Oz, 39 (My Michael, The Hill of Evil Counsel), is a dove; a member of a kibbutz in the Jerusalem corridor, he served in a tank unit during Israel's last two wars. Shmuel Katz, 63, was a comrade of Menachem Begin in the underground Irgun movement; a Herut Party member of the Knesset and an Israeli superhawk, he resigned as the Premier's foreign information adviser to protest...
...Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher who put together another secret meeting, this time on the Sunday before the vote. Both sides met again in Church's obscure but comfortable private room off a corridor in the Capitol. Lewis arrived with an aide and a quip: "I go to Church on Sunday, like every good Christian." But in a two-hour showdown, the talk turned serious as the ambassador, Rogers and the Senators struggled to compose a reservation acceptable to all parties. Byrd crouched on his knees, honing a draft over a coffee table. Lewis chomped on ice cubes...
...artist who has had such a pervasive influence on the U.S. was born in Rumania, a fact he considers fortuitous. In 1914 it was "a corridor, a marginal place"?a palimpsest on which various neighbors and colonial powers (Russia, Hungary, Turkey) had left their traces. To this day, Steinberg confesses himself to be "culturally a born Levantine?my sort of country goes from the eastern outskirts of Milan all the way to Afghanistan...
...Weizman's previous visits to Cairo (along a flight route that he jocularly refers to as "the Weizman corridor"), the Egyptians had allowed him to mingle with the masses. This time they kept him virtually out of sight of both the press and the public. Apparently the Egyptians did not want the Israelis to exploit the visit as evidence that Jerusalem is growing more flexible in its pursuit of peace; indeed, the Cairo government emphatically denied Israeli reports that the visit marked a resumption of formal negotiations...