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...merely dream nonsense, but the rich have to live it; and while we rarely endure the consequences of our fantasies, they do so relentlessly. Allan Carr, the co-producer of Grease, reflecting on his Malibu dream house and his Beverly Hills mansion with its cop per-walled disco chamber, exulted, "This is my fantasy . . . I'm dreaming all this." Then he added that he would kill anyone who awakened him. Who would think of doing that? Thanks to the Allan Carrs, all our harebrained desires are realized by proxy, like hiring a mercenary to fight...
...appointment would force the G.O.P. to play two games of musical chairs: finding a popular Republican to run for Tower's Senate post, to prevent the party from losing a seat in the upper chamber, and selecting another head of the Armed Services Committee, which Tower is slated to fill in the new Senate...
...whom know how to develop a hypothesis as well as an exhibition. The installation affects a quest. It is divided among three distinct, sequential sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have lain. The tomb at Vergina in which these treasures were discovered was unearthed in 1977 by Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. It may not actually be Philip...
...results surprised even the most optimistic Republicans. They had counted on a gain of maybe four or five seats in the Senate. They ended up with an eleven and possibly twelve-enough to give them control of the chamber for the first time since 1954. And victory was all the sweeter since the election toppled most of the Senate's leading Democratic liberals: George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho, Birch Bayh in Indiana, John Culver in Iowa, Warren Magnuson in Washington, Gaylord Nelson in Wisconsin, and John Durkin in New Hampshire. Only a few liberals managed...
...fallen Democrats included several of the chamber's most powerful leaders and esteemed veterans, who fell partly because Ronald Reagan proved to have unexpectedly broad coattails, and partly because so many voters were in such a throw-out-the-Administration frame of mind that they did not hesitate to extend their anti-Carter ire to Democratic Congressmen. Lamented House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It was a broad brush they tarred us with...