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...their book, however, Carter has strayed from the authors' picture of him as a model of control. "Carter's incredible competitive streak nowhere appears in any of the accounts of his White House days," the authors write. This about the man who said he would whip his opponent's ass. And "crisis thinking," the authors tell us, "runs counter to Carter's instincts." A terrific politician, perhaps--but a dismal leader...
...stadium behind their colors, brought a deep roar of thanks and a standing ovation from Americans remembering the Canadian diplomats who smuggled six U.S. hostages out of Tehran last month. The Soviets were received tepidly but politely; when a man in the stands shouted "Afghanistan, Bananistan, get your ass out of Kabul!," he was quickly shushed by fellow spectators...
...Galveston, where he organized the transmission of radar pictures of the huge storm to home screens and kept talking throughout three days of high wind and water. His derring-do and endurance caught the eye of CBS. Walter Cronkite remarked admiringly, if incorrectly, that Rather "was up to his ass in water moccasins." The network offered Rather a correspondent's job at $17,500 a year. Happily settled in his Houston post, he thought twice and then accepted...
...Waverly repertory also includes more ambitious staged works. For Le Roman de Fauvel, a 14th century satirical fable about an ass who rises to rule the world, they use sets, elaborate masks and costumes. At times they expand their forces to the 23-member Waverly Waits in order to present large-scale compositions. It is a practice Jaffee would like to step up. He believes that the custom of performing early music in small groups is like representing the repertory of the 19th century solely through chamber music. "They had their equivalents of the Medici Philharmonic too," he says...
JERRY BROWN is no longer "the sort of candidate who could be 20 points down in the polls of Friday, blitz the state over the weekend, and hand you your ass on Tuesday." That's how one Carter aide described him in 1976, when Brown upset Jimmy Carter in five primaries. Those victories, astounding for a man who had been governor of California barely six months, are now distant, almost absurd memories...