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...probably never know if Bob Hope had any demons he dared not face. But action is--or eventually becomes--character. Lacking the anguish and self-doubt many great comedians come to feel about being funny in an unfunny world, he did something different: he became a bright, brisk anodyne for the torments of a brutal era. It was no small burden, and he carried it dauntlessly...
...object of his brisk movement was over the moon. "I did it," screamed a woman stamping her feet. "I did it." Her friends crowded around her. "Don't wash that hand ever," said one." Another chimed in: "Don't wash it until his term is over...
...protracted. The President's pickup had to just sit there. Bush turned once to smile at the press pool following behind him and after the two animals separated, snapped his baseball cap on his head as if he'd just come out the other end of an unexpectedly brisk carnival ride. "It's the heavy petting zoo," quipped one reporter...
Rather than route flights through regional hubs and blanket the world with service like the traditional U.S. airlines, the upstarts offer flyers a patchwork of routes and a wide choice of onboard perks. The smaller carriers are choosing routes for which demand is brisk even amid a slumping economy and lingering fears of terrorism. That means smaller markets are being turned over to regional airlines or abandoned altogether...
...evocation by Pyle and Faas of war-era Saigon and the world's "first living-room war" is brisk and familiar: the heart-stopping nosedive into Tan Son Nhut airport to avoid sniper fire; the U.S. military's "Five O'Clock Follies" briefings; as well as the discovery that TIME's chief Vietnamese reporter was a spy for the North. I read it with the nagging sense that once you've read all journalistic memoirs from 'Nam, you've still only read one (and it's called Dispatches...