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...both sides of the fence. If a local person doesn't like it, I can understand that, but money talks." A salesclerk for an outlet comes in for a soda, and Wagner asks her how's business. Oh, she says, "it's terribly busy," and Wagner says, "God bless America...
...spoke to the enraptured employees of Sara Lee, the word was flashed to McFarlane about the terrorists' plans to fly out of Cairo. Onstage, Reagan thundered his ire against deficits and roared another pledge to get Government spending down. "God bless you," he shouted from behind his famous grin. The red-jacketed Deerfield High School band swung into Military Escort, and the crowd cheered. Behind the stage in what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential...
Galapagos puts Vonnegut one more safe step beyond the complexities of good and evil. The narrator is an amiable phantom named Leon Trout, son of Kilgore Trout of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions. Leon speaks to us from the future, 1 million years after humanity is supposed to have $ extinguished itself. Among the survivors are a handful of tourists and Ecuadorian Indians on Santa Rosalia, an island in the Galapagos. It was there, in 1835, that Charles Darwin observed the variety of species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed...
...upon his return to Woods Hole, "There is no light at that depth, and little life can be found. It is a quiet, peaceful place and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless those now found souls...
...status in San Pedro as demigods who can earn more in one year than their fathers did in a lifetime. To them, the U.S. remains a sort of fabulous offshore branch office. Says Andujar: "I love the United States. Every 15 days when I get paid, I say, 'God bless America!' " Still, he has built a new home in San Pedro, and on the terrace at Tio Miguel, a waterfront restaurant with a newly installed satellite dish to pull in the games from the States, the owner has permanently reserved Andujar's corner table...