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...Black Muslim minister who had agreed to plead with the men. He refused to disclose his name lest his standing among his followers be damaged by cooperation with the police. Speaking first in English and then in Arabic, he appealed to the gunmen to come out. If they would blink the store lights three times, he said, he would enter the store alone...
...figures is Weinberger. A Harvard-educated lawyer, who was California's finance director under Governor Ronald Reagan in 1968-69, Weinberger bluntly warned Cabinet officers in August, just before distributing his estimates of what their individual budgets should be: "When you look at your number, don't blink. It's not a typographical error...
...women were as deliriously mind-boggling and dangerously inaccessible as Farmer McGregor's lettuce patch. The one who captures Tony Roberts' fancy is Sugar Kane (Elaine Joyce), the band's singer and a lovely tribute to nature's geometry who would have made Euclid blink. Sugar is keen on meeting a millionaire. In a twinkling, Roberts returns to manhood, sprouts a yachting outfit, flashes a Wall Street Journal and woos away...
Economou's assignments have proved equally nagging. Despite Casey's elaborate manual of instructions, she says, "Every detail of a trip is a potential disaster." Ten minutes before Muskie was scheduled to speak in Manchester, N.H., the sound equipment went on the blink. Economou managed to scrounge up replacements with only seconds to spare...
...functional, it serves as amusement, it is a scale model of reality, moving ever closer to reality. But it is still based on the fascination inherent in an imitation and occasionally imaginative recreation of nature rather than a substitute for it. The imitation of nature ranges from the exquisite blink in an automaton pirate's eye, with lifelike eyelashes and wrinkles on his skin, or the marvel of transparent ghosts dancing around a huge hall, to the vulgar ride through darkest Africa, with your guide shooting at rhinos, hippos, and elephants. One can agree with John Ciardi's estimation...