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...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...Friday before the convention opened. A menagerie of Jackson hangers-on and media executives produced a constant din of demands on his time. Through it all, Brown moved at his amiable pace, never snapping. He shows the same style as he travels in pursuit of the chairmanship amid the crisp flutter of his professional staffers. Only small signs show that the calm is partly a facade: eyes that keep darting and miss nothing, a leg that shakes back and forth like a place-kicker's as he sits and talks...
...done hundreds of times before, Reagan walked along the Rose Garden, savoring the crisp morning air and glancing at gardener Irvin Williams' meticulous winter designs. But this time Reagan slowed, turned right and left to wave one more time. Halfway down the colonnade, he suddenly faced away, picked up his gait and, never looking back, went to meet the Bushes and take them to the Capitol to yield the presidency to his personally chosen successor...
...costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
...deep sleep for the next ten or 20 years, he might wake up to the whoosh of trains being propelled through the air by superconducting magnets. He might observe crowds of commuters toting supercomputers the size of magazines. In average homes, he might see 7-ft. TV images as crisp as 35-mm slides and enticing new food products concocted in the lab. But if he could read the labels on those futuristic creations, he might also discover the outcome of America's struggle to remain the leading technological superpower. Sad to say, a majority of those products might well...