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...classic, the classic maybe. "To dream the impossible dream," his chest swells inside the gold brocade jacket. His face, puffed enough from the good life to fill in any lines, begins to hang with sweat, small perfect beads on his forehead, twinkling in the kliegs. "To go where the brave dare not follow, To reach the unreachable star." He looks a little like Elvis--the pudgy, aging Elvis responsible for the sale of millions of commemorative ashtrays, the safe, sequined Elvis, the Vegas Elvis, and not the take-this, Memphis, denim Elvis that Middle America chewed on till he looked...
...Dillon never forgets, Bowles brought a gallantry to her out matched struggle with her life. It is strangely fitting that her last major stroke occurred while she was dancing at a party in her madhouse, thus earning herself her own brave and touching epitaph: "I have never yet enjoyed a day, but I have never stopped trying to happiness." arrange for - By Melvin Maddocks...
...fairly well, that being the way to live in Santa Barbara, but some going quietly mad nonetheless, as the President cuts and clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing today, reporters jot down "no news." Still, reporters and photographers are a brave lot and are taking in stride events like wine-tasting excursions to nearby vineyards, when they are not peering down at Rancho del Cielo with binoculars, praying for a sign. None is forthcoming. This is August. The President is on vacation. -By Roger Rosenblatt. Reported by Douglas Brew/Santa Barbara
...least bit excessive to rank the quality ice cream explosion with the sexual revolution, the women's movement and peace for our time. Great ice cream is sacred and brave, an eternal verity. And the passionate appetite for quality ice cream gives me hope for the survival of our civilization...
...CALCUATED GAME of men like Reagan is especially repelling when set against their calculated support for the people of Poland (invariably described as "brave"). In the past week, Solidarity has not only shut down the nation's airports for short stretches, it has also staged work stoppages in virtually every other industry, stopped traffic throughout their nation's largest city, openly defied a government warning about provoking conflict, and told the country's political leader that they will wait him out if he does not change his policies. This is, on a larger scale, exactly what the men and women...