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...drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade, food (cakes made from the mesquite bean) and even diapers, fashioned from the bark...
...than he promised. If one understood Saudi policy as the result of all the forces at work in the area rather than as the shaper of them, that perception was right. If the statesman acts as the helmsman in storm-tossed seas, Faisal performed masterfully in keeping his fragile bark always heading into the wind and having it emerge intact-no mean achievement, when one considers the fate of countries all around...
...emotionally affected by--a world without any apparent reason or overseeing deity. His surface steely-eyed, fierce-grinning goblin envelops a much more luminous, purposeful character in whom we see our hopes, anxieties, lusts, and humanity, and with whom we attempt to carve a moral niche in the rotting bark of 20th-century civilization. Nicholson's important films involve religion of the self; he acts as he sees fit, spiting society, family, and his hollow "responsibilities" to each. Their characters are not merely selfish--they seek fun, truth, and escape from inhuman constrictions. What was once vice is now virtue...
...Grand Ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie Jean commented, "but his bark is worse than his serve." Fault...
Like Sherlock Holmes' deduction from the dog that did not bark in the night, an Administration is sometimes marked by an appointment that was not made. One example last week was that of current Federal Trade Commissioner