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...this mentality certainly a harmless one--that the nation's college bands have directed their efforts in recent years. Stories abound of university bands being banned from television performances after they spelled out massive profanities or formed gigantic phalluses on the nation's football fields. In years past, such activities were usually funny, and a good time...
Jiang Qing, of course, wanted to be named Premier to replace Chou Enlai. She named as Minister of Health Liu Xiangping, one of those ruthless women who abound in Chinese history. Liu was not only ignorant of medicine but devoid of decencies. She made the hospitals of the capital hostels of despair. Few could escape her clutch. Old veterans and ranking bureaucrats pleaded not to be sent to the hospitals from which they feared they would never emerge alive. They were told it was the will of the party and off they went. Liu Xiangping was the wife...
...person. French has preserved but varied the gap; the only formal words for female people are those which also mean "daughter" or "wife," In English, as it happens, we lack such an immediate, glaring linguistic wrong. But that happenstance merely makes the gap more difficult to see; subtler equivalents abound...
Elaborate theories abound. Reagan will quit because he is ahead. Reagan will run because he is ahead. Mrs. Reagan looks unhappy so they will go back to California. Mrs. Reagan looks happy so they will go back to California. Reagan is not a quitter. Reagan can be happy anywhere doing anything and will quit. Talk shows turn relentlessly to these fantasies. Dinner parties go through three courses talking nothing except Reagan's mind...
...star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating, and if you were lucky...