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...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
Even dedicated arm benders find it necessary to spend some time behind their desks, of course, and so a variation on full-fledged partygoing was developed: the Drop-By. The ingredients for a successful Power Drop-By include a late arrival, a chauffeured limousine and media props. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has become a master. At a reception for a visiting Italian official, Weinberger showed up an hour late, greeted the guest of honor in the glare of a television light that suddenly popped on, chatted with other guests and said his farewells amid a quick round of handshakes. Elapsed...
...willingness to increase the money supply and keep the recovery rolling. "The Fed is taking extraordinary steps to ensure that the economy picks up momentum," said Wayne Lyski, a vice president of Alliance Capital Management Corp. Members of the Open Market Committee, the Fed's policymaking arm, met behind closed doors early in the week to discuss monetary strategy. On Friday after the stock market closed, the Federal Reserve lowered the rate it charges on loans to commercial banks, from 8½% to 8%. The Fed was charging 9% for such discount-rate lending a little more than...
...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...