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...gives us something there...like a bolt of lightening." Restic said after the game. But while White adds a little flash, he's a bit less adept than Colombo at running the offense...
Many visitors to the fête de l'humanité last week would agree with Chantal Courric, a state electric-company employee, when she said, "Whatever happens, we've got to play the game." But then, French Communists are adept at using bourgeois ways for their own ends. Commercialism at the fair gushed from 450 concession stands, hawking everything from television sets and encyclopedias to mussels and, of course, Russian vodka. Juxtaposed against such enterprising capitalism were signs and banners proclaiming WE ARE LEADING THE ANTIRACIST STRUGGLE and STOP YANKEE INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA...
...have already made Nicaragua and even Cuba more conciliatory. They claim that underwriting a 10,000-man force of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan guerrillas, contras, who fight from bases in Honduras, is designed to achieve the same end. The concern among observers is whether the White House policy managers are adept enough at this delicate diplomatic and military game to know when to call off the troops and strike a bargain. So far, however, U.S. allies seem comparatively unalarmed by Reagan's military responses. René Herrmann of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, a think tank in Paris, voices...
...when he ad-libbed his quasi-joke about cavemen during a speech to the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. It was an unusual kind of slip-up for Reagan, who uses jokes more often and more successfully than any other President since John Kennedy. He is so adept, in fact, that his Democratic challengers are busy sharpening their own jokes on the hustings. Political humor is no longer a laughing matter...
Sorrentino, an avid and adept punster, hits his stride when it comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...