Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal law enforcement source who asked not to be identified said the arrest was the result of a "sting" operation in which FBI agents kept under observation a prearranged meeting between the mayor and an unidentified friend in a downtown hotel, the Vista International, about six blocks from the White House...
...intimidate some and charm others. It's chemistry -- and possibly height. But as soon as she laughs, the formality is completely dissolved." Adds playwright Arthur Miller, a frequent guest of the Pinters: "She has great elegance as a writer and as a person." Marigold Johnson, a devoted friend since Oxford days who is married to the sharply conservative writer and historian Paul Johnson, muses, "Men like her better than women...
...powerless. The powerful have such an extraordinary effect on the lives of people around them." This led to the work she found most demanding, The Weaker Vessel, her prize-winning tapestry of the harsh lot dealt to 17th century women. Her current project is the suggestion of old friend Robert Gottlieb, editor of the New Yorker: the six wives of Henry VIII, combining her three specialties, royalty, power and women...
...says. She wins on opera, he on cricket. But Antonia casts herself as the junior talent. "I don't criticize Harold's work. I influence Harold, I contribute to his work by living with him, by talking to him." She contributes in another way repeatedly cited by friends: Pinter's manner is as angular and abrupt as his characters, but, observes a friend, "Antonia smooths over the offenses before the evening is out. She is quite good as stage manager...
...presidential campaign, and candidate Bush vehemently proclaimed that if he won he would never negotiate with drug lords. At the same time, the Reagan Administration was dickering unsuccessfully for a deal under which the indictments would be dropped if Noriega went into exile. A year later, a close friend of the dictator's speculated on the likelihood of U.S. troops invading Panama. "Send them in," he said. "By the time they get to Panama City, there'll be news releases detailing everything that Noriega knows about Bush. And what he knows is enough to sink Bush's presidency." Whether Noriega...