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...Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
Todd's father, a bluff, plump man who worked in the upper echelons of Xerox, laughed at the idea. His son, he said, was no nut--there was nothing wrong with him that a few football games or maybe a girlfriend wouldn't cure, and besides, those things cost money, you know. Easier to just live through the rough times: no point in worrying about Todd's mood. Besides, his grades are fine--things can't be that...
...Most Rhodesians are a little bit cynical about what the West is going to do. After the failure of the Kissinger [initiative], we don't trust these chaps who bluff us and then ask us to believe them. We were given a firm, binding contract and we agreed to it. We got a message of confirmation from Dr. Kissinger. We were assured that the British government was party to this. Also the "front line" [African] Presidents. You know what subsequently happened: they started backing out of it, one by one. If that agreement had been implemented, I think...
...strange in some ways. The people talk like books here and it's cold: both the people and the weather," Aubrey Jackson Jr. from Pine Bluff, Arkansas said yesterday. Jackson added that he plans to attend Harvard "but I'm not going to kiss the ground or anything...
Under Ulu Grosbard's taut direction, Kenneth McMillan anchors the play as a bluff but bewildered shop owner. John Savage captures the confusion of the wild-eyed junkie who responds to the shop owner's paternal warmth...