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...that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember isn't threatening Iraqis with my machine gun but seeing the children wave as we go by," and then adds that "sometimes...
Worst of all, journalists pounced on this criticism and covered it at the expense of honoring Mrs. King. In newspapers and on television programs across the country, an otherwise moving tribute to her and her legacy was overshadowed by coverage of this tasteless partisan banter...
...needle Kyles about the relative status of his invitations. "Anybody'd rather come to Atlanta than go to Columbus," he said. He shifted tone to inquire how Memphis churches achieved such unity behind the sanitation workers, who were not members of the prestige congregations, but Abernathy reopened preachers' banter on the subject of food, making clear his preference for soul food over fancier fare. "All right now Billy, I don't want you fooling me," he said, warning that if he went all the way to the Kyleses' home for T-bone steaks or filet mignons, which he pronounced "FEEL...
...Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class to reach land. Contact, of an edgily entertaining sort, ensues. It's a treat to see the pitch-perfect work of two grand troupers: Frances Sternhagen, hopping about like...
Will their banter flow like Matt and Katie's or stall like Dan and Connie's? Trying to usher in a shiny, young, coed era in network news, ELIZABETH VARGAS and BOB WOODRUFF will succeed the late Peter Jennings as anchors of ABC's World News Tonight on Jan. 3. Vargas, 43, cohost of the network's 20/20, will become the first nightly-news anchor of Hispanic descent. Woodruff, 44, anchor of ABC's weekend news, will hold up the venerable white-guy-with-good-hair tradition. The pair will attempt to stanch the migration of network-news viewers...