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...tension mounted, the Americans tried to divert themselves with crossword puzzles and, in spite of their lack of sleep, tennis on the embassy courts. Once, while waiting for a particularly critical Iranian reply, the Americans joshingly cast an imaginary movie of the negotiating drama. They agreed that Henry Fonda or Jason Robards should play the lead, poker-faced Christopher. Karl Maiden was their choice as soft-spoken Harold Saunders, the State Department's Near Eastern specialist. Peter Ustinov was assigned the role of Alec Toumayan, the team's balding, urbane interpreter...
...chauffeured limousine, particularly if someone else is footing the bill? It is still possible to enjoy a ride with a civilized or silent cab driver. Suburban car pools will usually accept a nondriving member, so long as he does not spill his coffee on a seatmate's crossword puzzle...
After my sprint through the desks, from Culture to National, from Foreign to Financial, I'd settle down with my morning crossword puzzle until the first batch of copy came my way. There was never time to read the paper the way I'd like; inevitably, someone would interrupt me as I neared the Op-Ed page. Like a Pavlovian dog, an early morning editor would yell "Copy!" at the top of his lungs. This didn't mean he wanted a piece of copy, or a copy made of some article. Instead he wanted me, Joe Copy...
...sudden changes, controlled by powers that the subject does not understand. Imaginative arrangements must be made, all of them temporary. "Gabriel at that time," Gallant writes about a young refugee in France, "still imagined that everyone's life must be about the same, something like a half-worked crossword puzzle...
...most overtly political story of In Plain Russian, in fact, is the least successful. "A Circle of Friends" depicts Stalin and his top advisors on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941 as a pack of drooling children barely able to complete a crossword puzzle, let alone manage a nation. Voinovich's farce bludgeons where a lighter hand might better serve Western audiences weaned on Animal Farm's model of anti-Stalinist allegory...