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...Vice-President; he should be attending the funeral himself. If Reagan were to attend the funeral it would signal the end of one of the most foolish and dangerous trends in U.S. Soviet relations. Not since Kruschev came to America in the 1960s has a Russian or an American bead of state visited the other country during their tenure. Reagan, indeed, seems to have a grand imaginative disdain for Russia, as if it were really not a country worth visiting, but a land where savage Darth Vaders punish and abuse helpless Ivan and Vanyas. Unfortunately for Mr. Reagan...
...premier satirist draws a sharp bead on lotus land...
Mason has an unwavering bead on the relationship between instincts and in dividual longings. Her women have ambitions but never get too far from the nest; her men have domestic moments but spend a lot of time on wheels. Ruby's lover, Buddy Landon, an itinerant hound-dog and pocketknife trader, gets to town every third Monday. His pickup truck in Ruby's driveway is "as startling as the sight of the 'Action News' TV van." And she hopes the neighbors will take it as a sign of her modern outlook. Sabrina, 20, has a small...
...game is usually played by groups of three to 10 people who "juggle" a small bead filled leather sack in a style similar to soccer players. The object is to keep the sack off the ground for long periods of time without using hands or arms...
...history. Her idea is not to create an identity for herself but rather to find a universal past or one that can be shared with at least other Jews. In a poem somewhat formidably titled "A Short History of Judaic thought in the Twentieth Century," the poet scratches her bead at the intellectual custom of answering a question with a question. If it is forbidden to touch a dying person except to remove him from a burning house. Pastan asks, who can she touch' She writes: aren't we all dying' You smile your negotiation smile and ask but aren...