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Those members of the 82nd Airborne Division who parachuted from helicopters as Grenadian soldiers fired at them from the ground were, quite rightly, granted medals. But so were a number of chairbound bureaucrats who got no closer to the fighting than an office in the Pentagon. While there were 275 decorations for valor, wounds or combat deaths, the Army also honored some troops who remained in the safe environs of Army bases like Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be called. Defending the awards, which the other services handed out more conservatively, against charges of "medal inflation," Army Spokesman Major Robert...
...amount of professional proficiency alone enables a musical to take wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne. The X factor, and Sophisticated Ladies has it, is mood. All of Ellington's music is mood music, and its components are inescapably urban, elegant, nocturnal and just a trifle snobbish. Ellington is as close as possible to being Noel Coward's twin...
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym. Bent on prolonging their useful lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales...
Shell & Worm. Chairbound souls, however, will put up with a lot from an author who has been there and back, whether "there" is the top of Everest or the depths of the soul. Burroughs has been there, all right; he is not only an ex-junkie, but an ex-con and. by accident, a killer. In Mexico, having acquired a wife, he shot her between the eyes playing William Tell with a revolver. (The Mexican authorities decided it was imprudentia criminate and dropped the whole matter.) He has even been in the Army, but not for long; he reacted...
Author Campbell puts the story in the mouth of an unnamed, fictionalized I-Wallah, but even the chairbound reader will recognize that every accent has the authentic tone of a man who has seen combat and can still think about it. The commonplace names−John or Bobby or Tommy or Donald−come completely alive, showing men at their best. Dug in among the wild rhododendron bushes, outgunned, outnumbered and outmortared, the West Kents put on a memorable show: at the end it is clear that men can be pitiable even in their finest hour...
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