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...Soundlessly as I could, I slipped down from the desk and made my way on my toes to the daybed . . . My astonishment at what I'd overheard, my shame at the unpardonable breach of his trust, my relief at having escaped undiscovered-all that turned out to be nothing, really, beside the frustration I soon began to feel over the thinness of my imagination and what that promised for the future. Dad-da, Florence, the great Durante; her babyishness and desire, his mad, heroic restraint-Oh, if only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard...
...rather cool response. No foreign leader criticized President Carter publicly. But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has long implied that the U.S. was being wickedly self-indulgent by using so much energy, and in off-the-record conversations top government aides in West Germany and Scandinavia were furious. "Another breach of promise," declared an adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, referring to Carter's follow-up on his pledge at the Tokyo summit to produce a tough energy policy...
...Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty provoked an open breach between the Arab states and the moderate black African countries. As President Anwar Sadat delivered an impassioned defense of the treaty as a "long, long path toward peace we have only started," six radical delegations led by Libya and Algeria ostentatiously stormed out of the waterfront conference hall. Once again, the moderates outmaneuvered the radicals: the conference attacked Israel and reaffirmed support for the Palestinians, but did not explicitly condemn Egypt...
...sacred trusts: the patient's right to privacy. Under a credo that goes back to the Hippocratic oath, a physician is required to keep silent about what he is told or learns of a patient's condition. But lately the tradition is being more honored in the breach...
...white, emaciated body, his spiked hair and suicide-scars and drunken, fun-loving leer. When he danced the pogo, it became the rage; when he pieced together his clothes with safety pins, that device became the emblem of an entire subculture. He realized that old age would be a breach of decorum--that, like Keith Moon, he could never grow old. Sid Vicious was to rock and roll what Winston Churchill was to Western democracy, and to many of us there was not a hell of a difference in scale. John Kifner, in his often cruel and amazingly obtuse obituary...