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...other areas." This man recalls how L.B.J. once hustled off to Georgetown to sell his Great Society to a collection of reluctant corporate executives. Johnson ate and drank with gusto, told stories, recalled almost every person's name from old encounters, removed his coat and straddled a chair backward, and explained for hours his grand vision of abolishing poverty and giving every child in the U.S. a chance to thrive...
...specific cuts, Browne looks back over his shoulder at a number of earlier songs, and reexamines both his Armageddon and the sorts of hold-outs who survive. He opens with "Disco Apocalypse," a "self-mocking parody" and skeptical glance backward at "Before the Deluge," in which the dreamers and fools with the energy of the innocent struggle to deliver Mother Earth from the hands of her defilers. With this "affectionate nod to disco." Browne turns to those caught in the sounds and sights of the avenue: Hearts beating to a disco drummer, they wait for the end of the world...
Unless your cover girl with the backache [July 14] actually has situs inversus, then I fear your medical-graphics editor may suffer from dyslexia. The X ray on the cover is printed backward...
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...beginning of 1978, Gaddafi's Libya, once one of the more backward and impoverished of the Arab countries, had few friends abroad. A radical who considers the Palestine Liberation Organization too moderate, Gaddafi had vociferously opposed the peace overtures of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Egyptian and Libyan armies had even engaged in border skirmishes. A supporter of worldwide terrorist activities against governments he opposes, Gaddafi was considered unreliable by Soviet leaders, although they were generously plying him with sophisticated arms. While Gaddafi kept selling oil to the U.S., his relations with Washington had been strained ever since...