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...open secret that the State Department took care neither to confirm nor deny. As long as it was widely believed but not officially acknowledged that the U.S. was helping Afghan guerrillas resist the Soviet occupation of their country, the Reagan Administration enjoyed the best of all worlds. It could bask in the credit for aiding a just cause without interference from Congress or propaganda attacks from the East bloc...
...opera, the most enthusiastic acclaim goes to the stars-prima donnas and leading men who troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...
Noguchi's political overseers have always bridled at the way he seems to bask in the strange, refracted limelight of dead Hollywood celebrities. In fact, Noguchi, 55, was fired once before-13 years ago this week-only to be reinstated by a civil service commission; he may again triumph judicially, but this time the case against him is more scrupulous and substantive. The most shocking charge in 1969-that he was "smiling and dancing" with glee at the prospect of performing the historic autopsy on Robert Kennedy-was never corroborated. The county board muzzled him in January because...
...cats bask in such luxury. Every city, village and farm county has its share of strays and their drifting human equivalent: the cat woman or cat man. On the streets of San Francisco or Chicago or New Orleans or Podunk, loners in torn raincoats carry shopping bags full of cat food to provide for an estimated 15 million "public" cats, on the possibly erroneous assumption that these adaptive animals cannot fend for themselves. Occasionally, however, some bummed-out cats find safe havens...
...Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...